It has been sooo long!

I am a bad blogging mommy! I should just do small ones here and there but never do so it gets to be FOREVER before I update...for that I am sorry!

Anyway...Josey is just such a 2.5 year old. Actually she is a bit past 2.5 but you all know what I mean. She is VERY verbal, active as heck, inquisitive about her world, independant to frustration sometimes and an overall joy to us.

She lately has taken to the following conversation:

"Where are we going Mommy?"
"We are going to the store Josey."
"Weeelllll, Mommy we have a choice. We can go to the store OR we can stay home."
"Well what are we doing Josey?"
"Going to the store."
"Ok so that is our choice then. To go to the store."
"Ok Mommy."

She applies this "chioce" conversation to many situations too....Some where she is about to get into trouble too. Those are my favorite. Thinking she has a choice between throwing her toy in the air OR going to her room if she does it again. I firmly let her know that there is no choice there. If the toy gets thrown THEN she gets to go to her room. No choices, except not to throw the toy. She normally decides not to throw the toy. Hoenstly she does. Sometimes anyway...there are days/nights where she will throw anyway and get some alone time in her room.

Her and Daddy went camping this weekend. She had an absolute blast! She loves to go camping with Daddy! Well who am I kidding? She loves to do anything with Daddy! Fishing, camping, movie, shopping....anything. I am glad that she loves Daddy so much since Mommy will be pretty busy soon with the new arrivals.

That is another thing in Josey's World that is interesting. SHe is pregnant too you all may know...has been most of the time that I have been. She asks doctors to check her baby when she goes in, we have the most WONDERFUL doc who actually checked her belly when she was in for booster shots. He listened and told her that her baby sounded really good. She just beamed like any proud mommy would! I wanted to kiss him for obliging her! But anyway....she has told me that she will have her baby when I have mine, her baby moves and sleeps in her tummy just like these babies do too! Just the other day we were out and she stopped and turned and told me to feel her belly since her "Rosey" was moving. That is her babies name, Rosey! Here is a belly picture that she wanted taken when I was taking mine, for posterity's sake you know!

She is now in clothes ranging from 2T to 3T which is just funny. She was always so far ahead in size, being born at 10 pounds and all, and is now actually slowing down pretty dramatically. Still healthy mind you just slowing down so much that I am having a time adjusting to it! I bought her some clothes for this fall/winter the other day and it was wierd...this is one of the first times I have had to since we have gotten so many hand me downs...but it was fun too. I am excited to see them and get to put them on her. She helped me pick some out, she can definitely let me know what she does and does not like.

She loves to talk on the phone...always wants to call Grandma Bucky or Grandma Jane. During the day sometimes she will ask to talk to Daddy too. Nap and bedtime are struggles sometimes these days. She asks 1000 questions, not important in the least of course, and stalls for what seems like forever sometimes. It is amusing and frustrating. She has to have shadow animals made by Daddy, Mommy sings Twinkle Star and she tells us every night that she is going to be a big sister. I hope she is that excited after the babies are here!

Well here are a couple of pics....Hope you are all well and good...off to update about the twins....

What a sweet sleeping little girl!


How cute is she?

oh...what to tell...what to tell...

Josey is just such an amazing little girl. I know, I know I am her mommy and a little biased but I just think she is so funny and incredible.

Let's see...

Her hand is healing very well. You can barely tell that she even got burned...thank goodness. She was really good with the healing process, she would pull the dead skin off her self. UGH! We had to stop her sometimes though because she would pick and it was not all ready sometimes...then it would hurt. She was good about making a fist for us, so that it would not stiffen up, and keep it moving. I was amazed at her healing abilities after her surgery and still am after this healing...

She talks constantly...and I know I say that all the time but she is always chatting. She is so curious about her world. Constantly asking questions....honestly this gets exhausting sometimes since this means we are constantly answering her, and sometimes two and three times with the same questions. But oh well...I would not know what to do if she was a really quiet kid since I am a talker myself!

She gets up in the morning and says, "It's a sunny day Mommy. It's a sunny day!" She is always wanting to wake daddy up with the same statement but we try to let him sleep in for a bit. :) She likes to look out the windows when we drive and point out all that she sees and she is pretty specific. If I call a van a car I will get corrected, "No Mommy that is not a car. That is a van." Well ok then!

Her new one too is, "can we talk about it?" If I tell her no she cannot have candy for instance. She will say, "Maybe in a bit we can talk about it?" Because then maybe I will change my mind and let her. Too funny!

We are having some road construction done right outside our home. There is a huge trench in the road that we have to drive over. They have placed some metal strips over it that make a lot of noise when we drive over them. Every time we do she asks, "Mommy what is that sound?" Well when Daddy is with us he will say, "Everybody look what's going down." Like the song..."hey, hey what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down." Well he has done this a few times but she has now picked it up. The past few days have been trying for me...I am soooo tired.(read my Omigosh!Twins! blog for an update) so the other day I just could not answer her AGAIN about what that was, I know bad mommy! So I just asked her, "What is that sound Josey?" And she pipes up from her seat, "Everybody look what's going down!" With this big ol' grin on her face! So adorable.

She is going through a growth spurt I think...she has been eating like crazy lately. Funny thing about her, and I have blogged before, but she will eat about anything. I am so glad that she is not picky but I am even surprised sometimes at her food choices. A current fave of hers is Cream of Chicken and Wild Rice soup! I get her her own bowl if go eat at Panera for lunch and she will eat the whole thing. I do not think I like that particular soup until I was in my 20's! So funny!

Well I am sure there is more but I have to go lay down now...will blog more about her later. I hope you are all doing well...continue to watch for updates....we will be home more so I will try to update more. and here is a funny picture....

I am terrible!

Josey is doing well and growing great! We keep pretty busy so I have not blogged on her for a while. She goes to bed and I normally follow....and her naptime is now mine. With her two little siblings growing nicely in my tummy I am tired often so I take advantage of EVERY oppurtunity to sleep when I can.

some updates....

She is talking even more, if that is possible, than ever. Constantly. It is fun and sometimes exhausting. Her new thing is to look at the clock....wait. Her first new thing is to get up at 6:30 am which I could do without! :) BUT anyway then about 7:30, which is when Daddy's alarm is about to go off, she says, "It is time for Daddy now Mommy! Can I go knock on the door?" Then she will proceed to our bedroom and knock until Daddy answers. We open the door and I let her in to see Daddy. She is such a Daddy's girl! Loves her Daddy.

Not so much fun....she got second degree burns on her right hand a couple of weeks ago. On June 27th she was playing in a fire/ash pile in the backyard. We had not burned anything for a couple of days in there so we were not concerned. She managed of course to find hot coals and ended up with second degree burns on her right fingers. Her index finger was worst. There were burns however on the rest of her fingers as well. We placed her hand in cold water and then tried to decided whether to take her to the hospital or not, not being too sure yet how bad it was. When we tried to take her little hand out of the water she would freak out crying, who can blame her, and beg us to put it back in. We decided that we had to take her in. A few hours later and a shot of morphine for Josey we find out that they are indeed second degree burns and we have to bandage her little hand up like a glove and leave it that way for a while until the blisters pop and the hand can be debreded(doc speak for removing the dead burned skin.) This means no swimming and playing because we need to keep it dry and clean and the blisters in tact as long as possible. Here are some of the early shots...

You can see how big her little index finger was...
And of course her bunny had to have a bandage too....although it did not last long.

So on Saturday we went to change her bandage and noticed that her major blister had popped so we decided that on Sunday we would take her in to the ER again to have them do the debreding(doc speak for torture I now know!) We took her in and they proceeded to cut the dead skin off her finger....this was a hellish process. She was crying, apparently some parts of this process hurt her, and the skin was coming off bloody in spots. I tried hard not to pass out, I have never reacted to the sight of blood this way BUT it was my baby girls blood you know? And she was obviously in pain which no parent likes to see. Daddy was even grimacing. They decided to stop that process and told us that they wanted us to take her to the local University hospital burn unit. This of course scares us into wondering why...but basically with her age and the fact that the burn went all the way around her finger they wanted to be sure we did the right thing. Ok we say...no problem. We get an appt. for the next day and go on about our Sunday.

Next day we go to the burn appt. I am ready for a marathon, I think that part of the plan is more debreding and some exams etc. We have been to the University for numerous reasons and while I trust their medical knowledge and expertise I know that a short appt. can become an all day deal...it can sometimes! I go down with extra clothes for her, a ton of diapers, snacks and am prepared to stay the night if we have to! Yeah maybe I over reacted a bit! :0) We get down there, get taken to an exam area and the nurse takes off Josey's bandage. SHe looks at her fingers/hand and says, "she is fine." The skin on her finger was pink and shiny which is apparently a good thing, means new skin was growing, and otherwise all looked good. We were in and out of there in 20 minutes! That was the shortest appt we have EVER had and we have been going there for almost 4 years! But how great to know that she was fine! Here is an after shot of the hand....and it looks even better now.


Well, Josey is wanting some one on one time with Mommy so I am going to close this. I will update later this week/end with some more info...she is just too funny these days and I want to tell you all about it! But the burn is the biggest thing in our world lately! :) More later...love to all!
Here is Josey feeding horses at Grandma Janes...

and here she seems to be addressing her people!

Row, Row the Boat....

Josey has learned to sing Row your Boat. She sings it pretty well, forgetting some words of course but she sings it! I just think it is adorable. She also sings Twinkle Star, her A,B,C's and Ring around the Rosey. I just love that she sings these songs! The bestest part, yeah I know that bestest is not a word, is that she sings to the babies. Yes folks she sings to her unborn siblings. Too Cute! and it is normally two or three choruses. No single song for her! The best part is that she has to have my tummy totally bare. She will pull up my shirt and down the maternity panel pants I normally wear and then sing to my bare belly. Sometimes into my belly button as though it were a microphone. She also tickles the babies through my belly button....I think she thinks if she sticks her finger in there far enough she may just actually touch them! I have to stop her though, my belly button is quickly disappearing and there is not a whole lot of room to stick her finger!

Her other favorite thing to do with the babies is to tell my tummy, "I am your big sister Josey!" These babies will definitely know who she is when they appear!

Anyway....I just had to post about this adorable little girl and her love for her siblings who she has only seen on an u/s screen. We will see how things go when they are here and able to make noise and take mommy's attention but overall I think she is excited to be a big sister and hoping she will adjust accordingly.

what's been going on?!

Ok...so I am keeping this short. I have so much to say about this little girl but not much time right now....I just wanted to post that she is well and funny! and get some pics out here.

I promise I will post more later on.

Wait. I have another surprise!

Ok....again it has been a really long time since I posted here. My apologies to anyone who checks this website on any type of regular basis. We have been busy...and tired...and sick. Well I have been.

Josey is going to be a big sister!!!! To two siblings! We found out we were pregnant back in mid-March. More on that on my other blog...this is Josey's World! We had an early u/s at 7 weeks which we took her to. She did not know anything until then. My best friend is pregnant, due in a couple of months, so Josey had seen Aunt Bonnie with "a baby in her belly". She had an idea of the whole thing. We decided to wait until the u/s so we could actually "show" her something and also to make sure all was ok.

We went in that day and they got me all ready. The image comes up on the screen and I see a heartbeat which is exciting. We tell Josey to look, Mommy has a baby in her belly. The tech says, "wait. I have another surprise." and then points out the other baby. We told Josey that we were having two babies! Twins!

She has been so excited! She tells people that she is going to be a big sister all the time. Every night before she goes to bed she says, "Mommy I need to tell you something. I going to be a big sister!" and then she giggles the most adorable little giggle. Too cute! She knows that there are two babies in there and will tell anyone who will listen.

Here is the best part. She says that she has a baby in her tummy too. I think it is adorable. Her baby is a sister and her name is Rosey. This is a name we are considering now because it is just too cute. Here are a couple of pics of Josey with her "I'm the Big Sister." shirt on yesterday.





Also just a quick note....I will be discontinuing my infertility blog and starting a twin pregnancy blog. I will link it up here so watch for that! It is called.....Omigosh! Twins!

She LOVES soup!

It has been a while again and I am sorry for that. We have been busy and there has been lots going on. I looked back at the pictures that I have taken recently to see what she has been up to. There were quite a few!

Well....she is totally into soup these days. Yes you read that right...soup. She LOVES soup. It is actually kind of amusing. she will ask for soup for lunch or dinner. She is not real picky about the flavor. She eats just about anything. The other day she asked for soup so I had a can of beef broth in the cabinet. I heated that up with some corn and she went to town. It is really funny. I bought her a few spoons that are a little bit deeper so she can scoop up more soup and most of it actually makes it to her mouth!

We played with Play-Doh the other day and that was a lot of fun as well. She had a blast making "snakes" and other shapes with cookie cutters. She would then run a little "cutter" over them and look at the design then exclaim with glee, "It worked Mommy! It worked!" It was really cute. I just loved watching her get so excited about it.

So we have also gotten a lot of snow around here lately and she just loves to play in the snow. What we do alot when it is that snow-y is I load her up on the sled and pull her down to the post office to check our mail. Then she gets to hold any packages on the sled and we make our way back home. She thinks this is great! She loves to grab chunks of snow, clean ones of course, and eat those. She loves eating snow about as much as she loves eating soup! Her new thing is to grab a handful of snow and throw it in the air while yelling, "It's snowing!" She just loves that!

For her birthday from her Aunt Cindy she got a Green Bay Packer cheerleader outfit! She just looks adorable. We were going to wear it to a Super Bowl party but our plans changed so she did not get a chance to wear it. I was wondering when we were going to get her in it and then decided to surprise Daddy on Valentines Day at work with her in her outfit. See, her daddy is the Packer fan in the family. I am a Dallas Cowboy fan through and through. Grew up in Texas for most of my life and so my football blood runs silver and blue. Brad on the other hand is a die hard Packer fan and I have no problem obliging him! Anyway, I put her little outfit on and went to surprise Daddy. It was a good surprise he was not expecting us at all and he got to show her off to his co-workers. It is always cute to watch him beam as everyone tells him what a cutie she is. He loves it!

We also went that day to get a heart shaped pizza for dinner that night. Josey was excited to surprise Daddy. The pizza was yummy! And fun too. I will leave you all with a picture of that. More later I am sure...she is constantly entertaining us!

JOSEY SUPERHERO!

We have this scarf that Josey likes to play with. We have had since she was a baby. One of my favorite photos of her at about 3 months old was taken with this scarf on while playing peek-a-boo. So anyway...she has been playing with this scarf for ever. Yesterday she comes up to me while I was doing some work on the computer and says,"JOSEY SUPERHERO!" with this scarf around her neck like a "cape" and her arms in the air. I thought this was so cute! I was able to get her to "pose" for me.
Here are a few other pictures from yesterday that were too cute!

Fighting the Good Fight

ok...so this whole pottying thing. It is just the most hilarious thing sometimes.

I have never in my life called so many people to tell them what my child is doing. And the funniest thing is that I am calling them to tell them that she has pooped or peed. I never knew that as a mom I would talk about body functions so much! You know when they are newborns you are constantly monitoring their poops and peeing. Making sure they are peeing enough, noting their poop color and consistency. Now I am calling people to have them congratulate her for peeing in the potty.

The other day we were at Wal-Mart and I asked her if she needed to pee in the potty since she had been drinking a lot that morning. She said yes so I went to take her. I took off her diaper and then held her on the potty since they are so big. She went pee. I was pretty happy since it was not at home, she told me she needed to go and was right and she had no fear about the "big" potty. SO...I proceeded to call Grandma Bucky and Daddy in the middle of Wal-Mart. Now I will admit that ever since I was pregnant with Josey I have been known to do to weird things in stores. When I was pregnant I would talk to my belly in the stores...I talked to her all the time when I was home and sometimes I would forget I was in public. Of course since she was born I have talked to her, sung to her or made silly faces or noises to make her laugh in stores. So this is not necessarily the weirdest thing I have ever done...just funny to call, hand her the phone and listen to her proudly, and loudly, exclaim "Daddy I pee in potty!!!" I do however think it is important and love to have many people congratulate her for peeing in potty.

So yesterday she pooped in the potty. I think it surprised her as much as it did me. I think that is a pretty big hurdle. May not be something she consistently does but at least it has happened now and she hopefully won't be scared to do it in the future. She just came up to me as I am writing this and asked me to change her. I asked her if she meant her diaper and she said yes. I asked her if she was poopy and she again said yes. So we changed her and she peed in potty too. I am proud that she was able to ask me to change her. Maybe the tides are turning in the poopy department. For a while she has been telling me no when I ask her if she has pooped. And I can smell her, I know she has but she will still say no. Again, normal, but frustrating.

Anyway...we will continue to fight the "good fight" and remain positive and proud. I was reading a book last night about potty training and that was one thing that stuck out the loudest was the idea of keeping it all positive so that she does not get scared or have any negative "feelings" toward pottying. I will try my best to maintain patience and to praise her loudly and often for pottying. Good luck to all those out there too. I know we are not alone in this journey and that is also very very helpful!

More later I am sure....she is constantly amazing me these days.

There's an Alligator in Here

OK...so I tell people all the time that Josey talks all the time. And I mean seriously all the time. But it really is the "worst", actually the best, when we are in the car. We went to a short string quartet concert today at the public library. Here is the conversation that we had. Keep up...and don't worry about my punctuation....:) This will also be written in "Josey speak" I will do my best to write it as she says it.

Josey: where we going?

Mommy: to the library to listen to some music.

Josey: to listen to music?

M: yes

J: ok. I have to be quiet.

M: yes you should be quiet.

J: ok. sounds good. (pause) we go to library to listen to story?

M: no not today. just music. Ms. Laura and your buddy Ben will be there.

J: Laura and Ben? ok

We now stop to get gas.

J: what we doing Mommy? Get gas?

M: yes we are getting gas.

J: ok.

Then we get on the road to go to the library. Make note here that she has her stuffed tiger with us today.

J: I hold tiger real tight mommy. he cold.

M: that is nice, it is cold outside today isn't it?

J: uh-huh. I hold him. I no drop him. We going to listen to music?

M: yep.

J: ok. I be quiet. Sounds good.

a brief moment of silence.

J: we go play with Gracie? see Bonnie and Chris?

M: no. not today maybe later. (later is my response to most everything.)

J: ok. maybe later. we go see Ben and Laura. Listen to music at library. ok.

J: Mommy what the car doing?

M: driving somewhere.

J: driving?

M: yep driving.

J: ok. Mommy what are you doing?

M: I am driving sweetie. What are you doing?

J: I am going to listen to music. I be quiet. Sound good?

M: yep. sounds good.

Then on the way home.

J: I hear music. I quiet too.

M: yes you were quiet. good job.

J: mommy I go see Grandma Bucky.

M: well not today honey. maybe later.

J: maybe later. ok.

M: we are going to go home to eat lunch and then take a nap. Sound good?

J: Sounds good Mommy.

A few moments of quiet...some conversation then....

J: Mommy, there's an alligator in here.

M: really. That is interesting.

J: uh-huh.

M: is he nice?

J: uh-huh. he nice.

This went on for a few more minutes. She has the wildest imagination that is beginning to really show its' face. She is so funny too. Very matter of fact about the alligator in the van with us. This is what I remember of the conversation to and from the library. there was more....so much more but that is a basic sampling of what we do whenever we go somewhere. If her music CD, The Wiggles, is on she will sing and then talk over the music. I have started just leaving it quiet because as tiresome(I am not a bad mommy! she just really talks alot!) as the constant chatter gets I love it at the same time. It is really fun to hear what she has to say. I hate the repetition the most. Sometimes she asks the same things over and over. That is when I get a little frustrated. But oh well. She is growing so fast that I know even these days are numbered. And I mean to cherish every last moment that I can. It will be gone before we know it!

Chicken Butt

OK....Flog me. I have not posted for a couple of weeks and I feel terrible about that. Sorry to those of you who actually look at this and hope to see updates about my beautiful wonderful baby girl.

What is she up to these days? Hmm.....that may be best answered by telling you what she is not up to. :)

Josey is such a joy to us. She is a constant talker. Conversations with her are just hilarious. She is so intuitive and very smart. I think that we are in a lot of trouble because it is quite possible she will be able to outsmart us both.

Lately she is very inquisitive, of course she is 2, and her favorite question is, "Why Not?" You can tell her that she cannot have another glass of milk before bed and she says, "Why Not?" When she asks to go play with one of her friends and I tell her no not today she counters with "Why Not?" Just about everything we tell her she says "Why Not?" It is actually pretty cute because it is not obnoxious in any way she is just genuinely curious about her world.

Her and her daddy get to spend every Monday night together because I have another commitment. On that night they apparently have a blast together. She is always coming up with new and funny things to tell me about their time together. The newest thing that Daddy has taught her is a little silly rhyme him and I have had for years now. One of says, "You know what?" and the other will say "Chicken butt." The response is then, "and you know why?" to which the chicken butt one responds, "Cow pie." Not a real crazy deal but just what we have done for years, since we were dating. Josey has now learned this and let me tell you she is so cute saying, "Chicken butt." If only I knew how to put an audio clip on here. It is seriously adorable. I try to be irritated that he taught her to say something like that but I figure there are worse things she could be saying. I had funny little things like that with my dad and I cherish those memories; I want her to have the same thing.

She loves to help me cook these days. We made Snow cream the other day. That is ice cream with snow. Basically milk, sugar and some flavoring. We made banana flavored snow cream with green coloring in it because she thought that green would be good. The stuff tasted really good too! We have been making muffins these past couple of mornings and she also helps make lunch too. I want to nurture her to love to be in the kitchen like I do. She may not when she gets older i guess but I will show her what fun cooking can be and she can make up her mind later.

We have been working on pottying lately and when she is "on" she is really "on". What a test of mommy's patience though. I hate to admit that but there it is. Potty training is probably the single most thing I have not looked forward to but really once I let it go and kind of take her lead things have gone pretty good. We have had a potty chair in the bathroom for a couple of months now just to get her used to it. She would sit on it every once in a while. She finally started to actually "go" on it when she would sit there. Now we ask her if she needs to "pee in potty" and she will tell us yes if she needs to go and no if not. And most times this is pretty accurate. Now there have been some times when she will want to sit on the potty for EVER it seems but overall those times are getting fewer. She is pretty productive when she goes. The other funny thing that has happened is that she has totally changed her bowel habits. I have read about this and heard about it too, pooping is hardest supposedly. She now goes when she wakes up and does not call me until she is done. Often times she may go again in the afternoon and does that when she is awake from nap and again does not call me to get her up until she is done. I think this is her way of letting us know that she is not ready to poop in the potty yet so we will just continue to let her do what she is comfortable with. I am in no hurry, she has time yet.

She continues to be a compassionate little girl always worried about others when they are crying or hurt. The funny thing about this is that she can ask if someone is OK and then go up and push another child off of the "toy" she wants to climb on herself. I find this to be hilarious; a little frustrating as a mommy because I would rather that she not push others but funny that she can have this contrasting sense of compassion.

Anyway....it is time for us to go play with a friend so I am going to wrap up now. I hope that this helps to show you all what she is up to these days....here are a few pictures too. Here is her in some of her birthday clothes and shoes....and her after helping make lunch just yesterday!

Two already!!

So today was Josey's two year birthday. I cannot believe that she is already two! A good friend of mine called this morning around eleven and reminded me that just two years ago I was sitting in the hospital getting ready for my c-section. Seems like yesterday in some respects and seems like years ago in other ways.


She has grown up so much and is becoming such a beautiful little girl. Inside and out. She is definitely a two year old, some days everything out of her mouth is "No!" or "Mine!". But she is also compassionate and caring. She will hit sometimes, as two year old will, but will come and say, "Mommy I hit Daddy. Daddy Crying. I say sorry." and she will proceed to apologize to Brad and give him a hug. Whenever she hears another child crying she asks me if they are ok. She is so sweet.


And so independent. She will be getting a new pair of shoes for her birthday, Pedoodles. I love them because they are good for growing feet bu also because they are velcro so she can put them on herself. I quit trying to put tie shoes on her until she can learn to tie them herself because she had a fit when I would not let her do it herself. "My turn." she will yell at me when she wants to do it herself. And these can turn into all out wars if not handled appropriately.


She is such a joy though. I often tell her she is my Joy. I am so blessed. Here are some pictures from today. We kept her birthday simple. Her and I made some little loaf cakes, this way I could freeze some since we would never get a cake eaten. She was so excited to make them with me. It was precious. Then we sang Happy Birthday to her three or fours times. She had to have her candles re-lit repeatedly since she was having so much fun blowing them out. It was just such a blast.


I hope that everyone is having a good year so far....more later. I am tired and ready to hit the hay!

Happy New Year!

Not too much to post today. I just wanted to say Happy New Year. Josey is napping right now after playing at the park with Daddy this morning. He has to go back to work tomorrow and I know that they are both a little sad about that. Well Josey may not be yet but she will be tomorrow. She is going to miss him.

Wanted to post this adorable picture of the little "pincess" as she calls herself. There is a wand that goes with it but she tends to beat the dog with it so....I have that put away for now. :) This was taken last night so she looks as though she is ready to ring in the NewYear huh?