12 posts tagged “pets”
The babies are 4 weeks old now. And they are so stinkin' cute. And crazy too!
First, let's discuss the ridiculously cute chinchilla babies. They are getting so big. And cuter each day. And they are rotten. Rose loves to climb out of the cage whenever I open it. I have to catch her before she falls to the floor. I'm in shock over all the things they do at a little over a week old. They popcorn, run, climb. Poor ZuZu was trying to eat and Rose was climbing on her head. I guess even chinchilla mamas have to just deal and do what they've got to do. I've got video and stuff, but I'm on the deck and have no desire to go inside to grab the camera and upload stuff. They are just such blessings. I'm enjoying every day with them.
And you just might need something to make you smile...
I don't know what has gotten into my rabbit lately. I let him out during the day, as I feel guilty think it's mean to have an animal only to lock him up in a small cage for most of his life. I never had a problem with keeping a bunny in a cage til I happened upon the "House Rabbit Society"'s web page. So Benjamin Bunny usually has the run of the house during the day. And I keep his cage door open so he can hop in and out as he pleases.
I've been sick and whiny all week. If I were Steve, I would've sent me to my room, locked the door and thrown the key away. But I'm not Steve. Instead, he got up on Sunday morning, got the kids out the door, played last minute substitute teacher for my Sunday School class, and allowed me to curl up on the couch in my pajamas for both Sunday AND Monday. He also did the Sunday afternoon clean up. (The house always seems to explode during the Sunday morning rush to get ready for church) He's been great in the evenings, doing whatever he can to make stuff easy on me, even if that just means playing referree and answering the hundreds of questions the kids come up with.
Last night he really came through for me. He surprised me with 2 pints of Ben and Jerry's (Chubby Hubby and Half Baked) and this....
Yes, he brought me War and Peace. I read Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina a couple of summers ago and have been talking about wanting to read War and Peace ever since. It's something I've mentioned before, but it's been awhile, so Steve gets "good husband" bonus points for stopping and buying this for me. Not that he needs any more points. His score is off the chart this year already. Although, now that I think about it, maybe he bought it for me so I would stop trying to talk to him while he is trying to read "The Poisonwood Bible". Hmmmm.
Anyway, this is the newest (and supposedly the best) translation. Sure this might take me a month to read, but I'm looking forward to it. As you can see, ZuZu is unimpressed by War and Peace and just wanted me to give her the treat I promised if she would sit still for the picture.
ZuZu, Victoria's chinchilla, just ran across my keyboard and changed my browser settings. I have no clue as to how she did that. Crazy chilla!
*I edited this to add a picture of ZuZu for those of you that have never seen a chinchilla before.
I don't know what has gotten into my rabbit lately, but Benjamin Bunny's been quite hyperactive. It seems every morning, when I go into the laundry room to get the perfectly folded laundry (definitely not digging through laundry baskets of clean clothes), he is pulling at the cage down with his teeth. He is actually bending the cage door. He wants to get out and run around that badly. I usually let him out to run around after the kids are at school. I'm so afraid he will get out if I let him out earlier, as they have a tendency to leave the door wide open.
Ben's been running around the house for an hour now. He loves to "chase" me and run between my feet. Poor thing gets kicked down the hall every once in awhile, sliding on the wood floors. I forget he's out, and he loves to come at me when I'm least expecting it. Yet, despite being punted quite a few times, he keeps coming back for more!
He just now tired out. He's laying by my feet, relaxing. If I had a camera handy I would snap a photo. I know he's going to hop up and follow me down the hall if I go and grab one. Anyway, he just makes me happy.
Victoria, Sophia and Josiah are home safe from North Carolina. Victoria is so happy with her new chinchilla. Definitely better than a replacement rat she says. We were racking our brains sitting outside the Twin Kiss Ice Cream Parlor on 301 while licking our ice cream cones and sucking down our milkshakes enjoying the beautiful day. At one point, we didn't think we would come up with anything. Victoria even told me I needed to take a picture and stick it on my blog and get your suggestions.
Then suddenly within seconds of each other we blurted out, "ZuZu's Petals!". So ZuZu it is, after George Bailey's daughter on "It's a Wonderful Life", one of our family's all time favorite movies. Instantly we knew we had our name. It was perfect.
ZuZu has a new cage too. Multilevel living. She's going nuts in it. Jumping around like a crazy chilla. Rolling around in her dust bath. She's cracking us up with all her crazy antics.
To change the subject the overeating and indulging continues. We went to a cheap Mexican restaurant for lunch with my brother in law, Rob. I had my first tamale. I'm wondering why I hadn't tried one before. To quote Dora, "Yum, Yum, Yum, Deliciouso!". We also stopped at the Twin Kiss on our way back from picking the kids up in Virginia. We drove an hour south to help cut some drive time off of their father's long drive to and from North Carolina. So anyway, the Twin Kiss, I had a soft serve vanilla cone with chocolate sprinkles. Mmmmm. I totally would've moblogged it, but my phone died. Oh the tragedy!!!!
Oh, oh, oh and just now I took my other ball of pizza dough that I had bought from a small local deli/butcher/grocery/liquor store. They sell there own pizza dough frozen, 2 balls of dough for $1.99. I bought them to try with my flammenkuchen. All the recipes I've found called for pizza dough, usually homemade, but I'm not that brave yet. I have a fear of making breads or anything else that requires the use of yeast and kneading. So anyway, I used one yesterday for that beautiful delicious flammenkuchen (Recipe to come NorthernGeek, I haven't forgotten you!). The other was just sitting in the fridge, and I had the rest of the ingredients to make pizza, so I did. And it is yummy. Steve and I are eating it right now. No picture though, sorry. I'm going to pick up more dough this week and make pizza for dinner one night this week.
I'm off to eat more ice cream and help Steve finish up this pizza. Tomorrow, I'll explain what a "flammenkuchen" is and post a recipe.
