It begins…
(It’s phosphor bronze…it doesn’t smell.)
Just wait a minute… it will 
I don’t think she can quite reach all the fingerholes, but she should be able to drool into the mouthpiece a bit…
Jessie, you take the most precious pictures! I’ve got to get a digital camera when I have a kid.
Wow Jessie! You’ve lost an enormous amount of post baby weight! That whistle is huge! What is it, one of those low low A’s? I like your bonnet by the way.
You mean even the kid won something in the raffle and I didn’t?? Nyuk.
So cute.
great name, too.
nice choice!
now NEVER use those words as a title of a thread again. it’s not healthy for my heart.
I was thinking about contacting Jessie to see if this whistle was still for sale, but I guess it’s out of the question now: Joey appears to have one heck of a grasp on that thing - Look folks, it’s Joey Driscoll with the Kung-Fu Grip! 
Loren
Hello Jessie. This reply seems fitting for my first post (in quite a while!). Joey’s picture is going up in the shop. He’ll grow into the whistle for sure. It’s mostly used as a percussion instrument now, I’ll bet. To quote Joey “the Lips” Fagan of The Commitments- “I believe in beginnings”. I can see your Joey’s off to a great start.
Mike, great to see you here! I’d love to see you in person again, too! I am thrilled that Joey will be up in the shop…but I want to tell you that Joey is a girl. Joey Rose Driscoll, my daughter.
The whistle is not yet a percussion instrument (when that starts happening, I will take away her Copeland temporarily and replace it with a Susato or something), but a comfort device. She just holds it still. She does, however, dance (as one can dance on one’s back) to Irish-ish music (Steampacket’s CD seems to he her current favorite).
Welcome little Joey Rose to the world of whistles…many an ancestor held and played those!! I know you heard the music while sleeping in Mom’s tummy…now you will be able to play soon!!
Great picture Jessie!! Thanks for posting!
Another of the Driscoll Clan
Nancymae
Welcome little Joey Rose to the world of whistles…many an ancestor held and played those!! I know you heard the music while sleeping in Mom’s tummy…now you will be able to play soon!!
Great picture Jessie!! Thanks for posting!
Another of the Driscoll Clan
Nancymae
Nancy, I enjoyed those e-mails back and forth between you and my father-in-law about the ancestry.
I enjoyed them too Jessie!! It’s soo much fun to find others who have the same roots as you!! I envy your F-I-L that he got a chance to go to Ireland…something I will probably never get to do!! The photos he sent me were GREAT!!
Rock on little Joey!!
Nancymae