Tuesday, July 28, 2009

A New Addition to our family





The boys have been begging for a dog for a while now. I'm stubborn & I just don't want anything else to take care of right now. So I happened to mention while we were at the beach last week that maybe they could get a hamster or a guinea pig & see how they do with that before we dive into getting a dog. (** mental note: don't ever mention anything like this to a kid unless you plan on doing it that day or either plan on hearing about it every hour until you make the purchase).

We got home from the beach on Saturday night & Sunday afternoon we were en route to PetSmart in Gastonia to purchase a guinea pig. I did my research & everything I read said that GP's make a better pet, esp. for smaller kids. Well they were out of them... none to be purchased. We had two very mad boys & Kensley even started crying. At this point all she had said all along was "the gee pigs are gonna fart" (... we saw the movie G-Force on Saturday). Yes, my sweet little girl said "fart".
You know how it is when you REALLY want something & you'll pretty much get anything second best just to satisfying that craving. They decided they wanted a hamster at this point... just wanting to buy something. We convinced them to wait until today & we would visit the local pet store in Shelby in hopes they had GP's. So today we purchased our very first family "pet".... her name is Sprinkles & she's 9weeks old. So far not a lot of activity... just a lot of staring & sitting in our lap. She's pretty cute regardless.

1 comment:

EngineersFalcon said...

ADORABLE - let me know it works out - we have periodically considered a small rodent.

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