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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Welcome to our family

Lily and Lucy! 

Ethan's hamster Nippy died an untimely death shortly before Christmas.   (Ron found him in the middle of the kitchen floor early one morning, and an EXTREMELY guilty looking yellow lab sitting not too far away...sad but true!)  Ethan asked for hamsters for Christmas, so he got a gift certificate to PetSmart, with enough on it to cover the cost of two hamsters.

He and I traveled to PetSmart a couple of weeks ago so he could pick out his new friends.  He had so much fun looking at the hamsters and studying them and learning the difference between the different breeds of hamsters.  He'd at first wanted dwarf hamsters, but after learning that they are SMALL and REALLY fast, he decided to go with "Winter White Hammys"

Enter Lily and Lucy.  They are SOOO cute and active.  They love to stand on their hind legs and peek out at us from their cages!  Ethan is working hard to get them used to his scent so he can hold them without them biting him.  It is getting better, but he still gets bit once in a while.  It hurts, but he's being a tough guy about it.  He's been putting a bit of food in his hands and they are both willing to crawl into his hand to eat it.  Today, for the first time, Lily crawled into his hand without food in there first!  Progress!

Here are some pictures of these cute little creatures!  (Grandma K--you don't have to look at the pictures if it will freak you out...they are a little "mousy"...lol)

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Oh, my gosh...isn't she just so CUTE????  Everyone...meet Lily (sorry Phil and Aubri...Ethan did NOT name her after your Lily...at least...I'm pretty sure he didn't, LOL)

We watched her work and work to crack that sunflower seed open to get to the meat inside.  Her little paws just hold so tightly to things...it's fun to watch her work!

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Everyone....meet Lucy.  She's not quite as tame as Lily just yet, but she's getting there!  This is the one that bites Ethan the most.  He tries hard to be "manly" about it and not cry, but dang...that does HURT!  She's made him bleed a couple of times!

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This is Lily again...we (well...Ethan) can tell them apart 'cause Lily has a little part of her right ear that is damaged. 

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Lily and Lucy in their home. 

We hope you ladies are happy here.  We'll work REALLY hard to keep you away from KT!

Sandy

6 comments:

AmyD said...

How cute!
I really enjoy your blog....
My son would love for me to create a blog and put pics of his newest pet on it! He thinks she's cute...he's alone in this thinking. She's a rat!
I would much rather have her be a hamster!!

Anonymous said...

Hey guess what? I can leave a comment!!!!! So here is my comment:

You are one brave lady. :D

Totallyscrappy said...

They are really sweet. I had hamsters as a kid, but I'm not sure I want my kids to see those cute photos of yours...

Aubri said...

Well, it would have been an honor anyway and how strange, our Lily won't crawl into our hands without food there either!

Zaroga said...

They are cute.

Our daughter had a hamster. She had a ball for it to travel around in the house and the dog chased it all the time when it was in the ball. The hamster died after about 3 months... no dog involved.

The hamster was smart enough to get out of its cage and it chewed the carpet in Sonja's room and a my favorite pair of jeans that I had let Sonja borrow and she threw on the floor of her closet. So I didn't let her have another one :-)

Sandy, please pick up the Lemonade Award at my blog: http://zarogasnook.blogspot.com/2009/02/award.html. I was just too sick to name specific names at the time. You really deserve the award.

Cheryl said...

OH, been there...done that....never again! I'm sure he was sad though.