I'm an Aunt!!!!!

Okay, so I am officially an aunt to a beautiful baby boy named Ethan Michael Dean. I would love to post some pictures, but all the pictures I have are from the hospital and I don't know if my brother and sister-in-law really want those posted on my blog. So, when they send me a nice little picture of just him (in one of the 30,000 outfits I bought for the first three months of his life) I will post one up :-)

In other news, Little Shop of Horrors is going well, but I confess that I am getting a little tired. It is really hard to go seven days a week with no week for multiple weeks at a time! But, in the end I know it will pay off. Here are my puppet pictures of the week (and since we are hitting the last three weeks, things are going to begin evolving much, much faster!!!!):

You can see the little monitor right above his head. There is going to be a live feed going straight to him so he can see what he looks like to the audience. In other words it will be like performing in front of the mirror.
This is really a framework. Right now he sort of looks like a bullfrog from this angle. But, he won't in about a week. Look at his fangs - I thought those were pretty funny!