The Nutcracker

As many of you know Josie and I went to The Nutcracker ballet a few weeks back. She is now a huge Nutcracker fan. She loves the music, the ballet, the mouse king. Actually she is obsessed with the mouse king. She listens to the battle music and is so sad when the other mice come to collect his body. She has shared the book and the music at school and she dances to the music all the time. I took a great video of it but well, I have not yet been able to get it to load to this blog or to an email attachment. I do however have pictures of her and her friend Maura, she and her mom went with us, eating their "special desert" after the ballet. She chose raspberry cheesecake.
A HUGE slice of raspberry cheesecake.

Open wide!

Merry Christmas!

Well, Christmas is over and as expected it took Josie quite a while to get through her gifts. When she opens something she stops to play with it right then and will then remember there is more to open. She worked on several projects with her art supplies from Uncle Mike, played cheerleader with her pom poms from Mousels, dressed and undressed the Cinderella doll from John and Sherry, played "Dr. Leonard"(our vet) with her new costume from OD and Tuppin, and played Candy Land. Since Christmas we have also watched her new movie, danced with her new rainbow tutu, and ridden her new bike. According to her it is "So cool!"She asked Santa for only two things - a candy cane and a big lion. She was very specific about where he could find the lion. Well, Santa came through and she got a candy cane and a big lion. The lion is as big as Ernie and has been on her bed or next to it while she sleeps since Christmas.

Telling Santa very specifically that he could find the big lion at the store by where we got her princess tennis shoes. She told him to have his reindeer fly him there.

Dr. Leonard aka Josie

Cuddling up with her lion and princess blanket on the couch.

The big lion.