New pets

A few weeks ago we adopted three baby rats from a local small pet rescue. Charlotte and Grace have begged for a pet for along time. We have talked about everything from a puppy (not going to happen) to a goldfish. We finally all agreed on rats, and I think it was a great choice for us. Their names are Rose, Violet and Petunia. Rose is the white one and she is the calmest and was the quickest to let us handle her. They all have nice little rat personalities, and I think they are getting used to the chaos of three little kids trying to play with them.

I guess you're probably either a rat person or you're not. For all of you out there who like rats...aren't they cute?!

All Three

Derek helped me with this attempted little photoshoot the other morning. Eli was not really in the mood. Charlotte is being a really good sport and singing the baby bumblebee song to try to cheer Eli up. Not working.




We finally got him interested in ring around the rosie.


He doesn't drop down at the end, but he thinks it's really funny when everybody else does.


I know you can't see their faces, but I really like this one. I like the motion in it and how Gracie is reaching out to her little brother.


And we're back to the screaming. End of photoshoot.