Barnyard?

What happens when you spend an entire Saturday cleaning out and organizing your garage?  The kids find all the stuff you bought to outfit a hamster last year for Christmas and then thought better of the idea and decided not to proceed with the gift.  When you already have a house and a playpen it's hard to argue with the boys sound logic of just needing to buy the hamster and some food and their lives would be so completely awesome for a random Saturday afternoon.  Well, what else was I going to do with all the stuff?  Sell it I guess, but that would have crushed the dream that was now in their helpful little hands just waiting for a furry little creature to make the dream complete.  So, to the pet store we went and returned home with Griphyn....which is after the spelling of character in some game they play.

I will admit that she is pretty cute for a rodent.  The boys love her and the cat has taken a liking or licking to her haha.  The funnest thing to watch is when the boys put her in her ball and she rolls around the house.  The cat finds this an especially fun little adventure as well.  On one of the first couple days we had griphyn she was cruising around the family room with Zazzles chasing and batting the hamster filled ball around.  I noticed that one of the areas on the ball wasn't as shiny as the rest and asked the boys if it were possible for the cat to get the lid off.  No sooner had I uttered the words when a hamster goes flying out of the ball at lightning speed across the room.  Screams from the boys and bodies dashing and crashing about and I thought there was no way we had any hopes of catching this tiny little creature in our big ole house with its sprinting little legs.  Well, doubting our abilities to catch the rodent was a correct assumption but the cats abilities were specifically designed for such an encounter.  It was mere seconds before the cat had her in her clutches.  Jared panicked that the hamster was going to be eaten and slapped the cat away and got ahold of the hamster.  It was a very close and very entertaining game of cat and hamster.  Needles to say, the lid is double checked for security before it is put on the floor after that.

With all of these animals it is beginning to feel like a barnyard.  Next week, goats, chickens, maybe a pony?