Smiles Again!

Of course after the loss of Oreo, Megan and Emily had to replace him--within hours in fact. We went to the Petco by Mammy's house with 2 girls still crying uncontrollably. And much to the store clerks dismay, they only had white guinea pigs with red eyes. That brought a whole new round of wailing in the store. The store clerk quickly called another store and found that there were guinea pigs that had black eyes, just like Oreo. And so Mammy carefully got a shoe box for Oreo and we loaded the cage in the van to fill it once more. Luckily the store in Riverdale had been forewarned that we were coming and had all the "black-eyed" guinea pigs ready for viewing. Megan and Emily found a baby pig that is completely black. And now once again they are the proud owners of a pet by the name of Shadow.

Here is Shadow's debut picture. According to Emily the best days of her life have been going to pre-school and getting a new guinea pig. Pretty easy to please.

Tyler and Wendell could not handle another break down by the girls. They spent Saturday building a pen for Shadow so that if the girls want to play with him outside they have to sit in the pen. As Tyler says, "this is the last chance you get for a pet."