Most Requested Wilsonism - "Remember the Alamo"

This is our most requested Wilson story, so even though it happened last October, we want to give the readers what they want (this is a true story, you can't make stuff this good up):

I am not a native Texan. I married a native Texan. I'm told there is no marriage counseling that can actually fix the issues that arise from that. So "The Alamo" was out on DVD and Chris went and rented the movie. He came home and asked me if I wanted to see it with him. It was a Saturday afternoon and I told him I was busy cleaning the house and doing the laundry. He said it was my loss and asked one more time if I wanted to watch "The Alamo". From down the hall a small voice started yelling "I watch it with you Daddy! I watch it too!" and Wilson came running top-speed down the hall into the living room. I honestly had not seen Wilson that excited about a whole lot of things and I told Chris "Gosh, he's really excited about the Alamo." That one remark got me a lecture on "Native Texans", "The pride of the Alamo", and something about "understanding that Texan blood was spilt"... Anyhow he let our then two year old settle in for the lengthy movie. Every time I passed by them watching the movie Wilson was focused intensely on the screen. He sat and watched the whole movie and never moved.

Later that evening we three were working out in the yard, moving gravel piles. I admitted to Chris that there actually might be something to that whole Native Texan tie to the Alamo, after all, a two-year-old had been totally focused on that whole movie. Chris started in again on his Republic of Texas rhetoric. He said our son just understood "the power of the Alamo". Just as Chris was building his praise of our Native Texan son, Wilson climbed up on top of the gravel pile and raised a stick up in the air. Just as serious and loud as he could he yelled "Remember Elmo!"

And then Chris knew - all preschoolers understand the power of Elmo.

Our child had watched that whole movie and expected a red muppet to come out at some point in that movie to defeat Santa Ana and the Mexican army. And I suppose that was the day Wilson learned about disappointment and the day Chris learned humility.