Movie afternoon..

Casey watched Toy Story this afternoon for the first time.. he not only sat through the whole movie, but he watched it twice. He found a few parts scary.. Sid's dog, and Sid's mutant doll head toy particularly.. but he couldn't look away. Hopefully he wont get nightmares tonight!































Giving his bunny girl a kiss :)

She has a name!

Things are going well with bunny girl! She's been called all kinds of things in the last couple of days, but we're 90% sure her name will be Muffin. You know.. Cupcake and Muffin, lol.

Cupcake is tolerating her, now that she's gotten over the shock of this strange, hopping, long-eared creature.. they'll sit on the same piece of furniture, on opposite sides, ignoring each other. It took much longer for her to get to this point with Oreo, so I'd say it's a good sign.

She loves to explore, run around after Casey, and take naps under our bed.. the only time she'll go to her cage is to eat, drink, or use her litter box, then when we put her to bed at bedtime. I love that she's able to interact with the family, like Cupcake, and not be stuck in her cage all day. The only problem we've come across so far is that she likes to eat Casey's food, so we have to be careful what he is eating around her (they both love strawberries and grapes though!).

There were two little girls at the playground today, with their grandmother.. Casey was playing with them, and kept calling their grandmother 'gran', lol. He'd be like "Look, gran! Watch me, gran! Can you help me, gran!" At one point, he had a tantrum because I was trying to help him with the ladder, but he wanted 'gran' to help him.  She was so nice, and paid as much attention to Casey as she did to her own two grandchildren. This is not the first time he's adopted someone's grandparent as his own.. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the fact that we're so far away from all of his grandparents or not, but it makes me feel guilty, and sad for him.

Nameless bunny girl..

Yesterday we took Casey to pick out another pet.. and this is who we brought home :)





She is still nameless as of right now, but we have a few cute possibilities. It'll be Casey's choice, as long as he stops insisting we name her 'Peter' (although it would have been a great name if she wasn't a female, and it wasn't already daddy's name).



She is a house bunny.. she is allowed to roam free while we're home, then she'll go in her cage at night, or while we're not home. She is so friendly, curious and playful.. Casey has been laughing hysterically playing with her all morning, and last night she was hopping up on the sofa to sit next to Peter. She loves Casey.. I was a little worried he'd be too loud and scary for her at first, but she just follows him around everywhere.. I'm surprised how kitten-like she is. We all love her, with the exception of Cupcake.. we introduced them briefly last night, and she ran after and jumped on Cupcake.. Cupcake was shocked, and not very happy, lol. From everything I've read, and what we were told at the Humane Society, house bunnies and house cats get along very well.. so I think (hope) eventually they'll be the best of friends like Cupcake and Oreo were.











In other news.. I booked our flights to Colorado yesterday.. we'll be there from the 2nd - 12th June.

Goodbye Henry :(

Casey's guinea pig, Henry, died last night.



This morning we had to explain to him that Henry had been really sick, and had passed away. Being three, he doesn't understand the finality of death.. he has asked me a few times today if we can take Henry to the hospital to make him better, and has come to tell me that Henry's water bottle and food bowl are empty, and he might get hungry.

RIP Henry.. you were only with us for two weeks, but you were already part of the family and we'll miss you.

Bedtime.

Casey, calling from his bed: Mummy, one more cuddle and kiss!
I go in, and give him a cuddle and a kiss.
Casey: Five more cuddles, mummy, and five more kisses!
Casey (counting my kisses): 1.. 2.. 3.. 4. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.
Me: Okay, that was 12 kisses.. time to sleep now.
Casey: No, it hasn't been five kisses yet, it was only four!

:)

Christmas is officially over..

We finally took down all the Christmas decorations yesterday. I'd been waiting for our across-the-road neighbors to take theirs down.. they're very religious, so I figured as long as theirs were still up, I could get away with leaving mine up (we put our tree up late this year.. usually I'm sick of it by New Years day). I'm going to miss the smell of the tree!













The scrape on his face happened about five minutes after Peter left for work today.. he was standing up on the big boy swing, slipped, and fell face first onto the stones.. he cried so hard for his daddy :(
Need to put down sand under the swingset asap.

Shaving.

It was also all over one of the bathmats, and the bathtub.. at least my bathroom smells good, lol.