You've Got a Friend in Me

I should preface this by saying that ever since Kerri watched Toy Story 3 for the first time, she's been completely in love with Jessie. Any money that she's gotten for her birthday or Christmas has all gone to something Toy Story related. Her best and favorite purchase - the Jessie doll. Kerri's favorite thing about Jessie is that she yodels. When we were in Target, armed with birthday money, she saw Jessie, pulled her string and out of the 20 things that Jessie can say, she happened to yodel first. After that, nothing else is the entire store offered even a slight temptation for Kerri to change her mind about choosing Jessie. 

Kerri has carried Jesse around everywhere since November . . . up until about two weeks ago. We couldn't find Jessie anywhere. I wasn't worried for a few days, but then after a big room cleaning day and searching the rest of the house and the van multiple times, Jessie was nowhere to be found. I retraced our steps and called every store or place that we'd been to in the last several weeks. When nothing turned up from that, I visited, in person, the stores I thought were the most likely places where she might have taken her in and accidentally left her (you never know if the person on the phone is actually looking or not...).

Nothing. 

Kerri really and truly 100% believed that Jessie had come alive and was trying to find her way home. She prayed for Jessie. She cried for Jessie. She waited and waited and hoped that she was on her way home. It was pretty sad. I was really beginning to entertain the idea of buying a new Jessie, roughing her up a bit, and letting Kerri find her somewhere in the house.

Whatever happened, she must have worked up an appetite because yesterday Andy discovered her hiding in the pantry! Kerri was giggling like crazy and all of a sudden remembered that, for reasons only known to her, she had hidden her there but then forgotten about her.

Whew! Crisis averted and best friends are reconnected!