In his first blog of the new year, Gilbert talked about the gifts he got for his kids. I know this entry has already been talked about, but I think the most interesting part of the blog went unnoticed. Check out this passage:

I’m having the train set for my kids set up in a couple days, but all the other toys from F.A.O. Schwartz came in. They enjoyed it. My daughter got her first little three-year old bike and she got her little BMW car, so she had fun with that. She also got a life-size elephant stuffed animal.

Now according to wikipedia, elephants average about 13 ft. tall and 7500 pounds. Of course the life-sized stuffed elephant would be considerably lighter, but it still begs to ask the question: How is Gilbert’s daughter going to play with this life-sized stuffed elephant? She can’t exactly take it over to her friend’s house, or hug it, or anything else that you’d do with a normally sized stuffed animal. I can’t see anyway that this doesn’t turn into a giant, fluffy paperweight.

If that didn’t baffle you enough, consider this: How did Gilbert hide the elephant from his daughter until Christmas morning? I mean, there’s the whole “elephant in the room” expression, and then there’s hiding a 13 ft. tall stuffed animal.