Thank you everyone for your warm and heartfelt welcomes! I will get pictures up soon. To answer a question. . . when I first got the muffin bear he was very shy and scared. He just wanted to spend all his time under our bed. The first time I bathed him I felt that he must have had a broken rib that healed funny. Poor little man, I almost cry every time I feel it and I imagine he must have been kicked! Sometimes I really wander what his past was but other times I am content not to know the horrors. He was one day away from being put down and I just can't imagine why someone would not want to love this little guy. I feel blessed to have him in my life