Day 1: successful

Well I guess it going on day two, but day one. We went up to Chicago and brought home our new hedgehog. Cute little pet, funny faces and sweet demener… But it smells, really bad, just at night when it craps all over his wheel. But i still smells. We have had a window open and the fan going almost constant since it got here. We have named it Buddy. Corny I know, but we were calling it heggy Buddy anyway so it fits. He is scarred of all the noise, but we still pick him up. I made a pouch out if layers of fleece (thank you Jon) for it to sleep in and cut our tropical sticks in half to it can go upstairs in its cage. We fed it a cricket and meal worms for snacks, it’s an insectivore in the wild, and high end organic cat food that is super high in protein.  They only live about 4 years- 7 at most, so only 1456 more days of smelling hedgehog stink at least! Any way they are cute and fun- so far, I can;t wait for him to warm up to us… it will take a while though!

And yes, for all the bobbing heads out there we are still getting our Chinchilla. In 2 weeks we will travel to IN to a chinchilla farm and pick out out very own chinchilla pet. We have been asking  our kids what to name our new chinchilla and the only name that keeps coming up in Chee- ta, like that big cat- you know. So Chee- ta will come home, and I’ve researched that the don’t smell!! So we’ll see how the two misfit brothers get along! It should be fun.

I have my nephews three days this week, I hope I survive! We have our window installs later in August, but we have to tear down the wall and tear up the carpet. We need to get started or it won’t get done. Hallie starts school on her birthday, and we get to go shopping tomorrow with Grandma Lisa. Colton is starting school too and he seems excited.  Jacob has bad separation anxiety, I hate to leave him anytime because all he does of other people is cry and cry.  I just put him is his bed and let him work it out.  Anyway time to sleep on our newly turned bed. It’s good, very very nice.