Shhh!

Part of growing up is learning hard lessons. Sometimes those lessons come in the form of learning to deal with disappointment and other times it might be one of the dreaded "learning your lesson" kind of moments. You know the ones, they always accompany a bad decision on your part that is further accentuated by those words coming out of a parental units mouth. But, again, these moments are part of growing up.

Neither of us were ready for her to grow up quite yet.

She arrived today, all sparkly and new. The tags that made her a collectible were intact. Lulu asked for them to be removed immediately. She wanted to snuggle her.

**thankfully we were able to find her on ebay for a reasonable price. thanks to everyone for scouring the web to find her, the sympathy emails, and the offers to send others our way.