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| taken with my iphone-we are relaxing pre-surgery with the meds! |
Emma sings again-amazxing job at the spring concert. Of course I had trouble video taping for Daddy. Turns out, Lori was nice enough to save Baca & I a front seat! Daddy was out of town and Grammie was at Reagan's graduation from pre-school. As a choir group you all sang "Rolling In the Deep"-Adele. Great job! Not an easy song to sing. You also had a solo in a really neat Americana type song. I will have to get the name of it. Wonderful job!
Welcome to the family-we have a boy! Pickles Alec Murphy! I am so proud of you Emma for how you have handled the whole guinea pig thing. Months ago you came to Daddy & I to ask if you could get a gpig-absolutley not I said. I took some time and really thought about it-just because I know nothing about them doesn't mean you shouldn't have one. We can learn together. I suggested you do some research and answer some questions. This way, we could see how serious you really were. Boy, you showed me! You had pages of research from on line, you came to me and asked what I would want to know, checked in with us several times about it. And, you measured, saved money and ordered supplies to create your very own, unique guinea pig habitat. Its awesome! You are responsible for his food, bedding, cleaning, etc. So far so good. He is kinda cute...but spends a lot of time in his paper bag-seems to feel secure in it. The original plan was for you to purchase the gp after your birthday with your own money. I thought it would be neat to surprise you on May 12, take you to Petsmart and we would buy your gp for you!!! It would be your bday present. Well, its difficult to surprise you--I had errands to run and planned on taking you in the afternoon-you were so persistent-'can't we just stop by Petsmart and look at the guinea pigs? Please?" UGH...I had to just tell you our plans because you would not let it go.We all packed up and went. Honestly, upon seeing them for the first time, I thought they were hideous. I rounded the corner and there were 2 on the bottom in a cage like thing-one was much smaller than the others and I thought the cutest-just had to convince you of that! Luckily, you felt the same way--he was so cute-we signed paperwork, paid for him, got some supplies-you had bought most everything prior. So far so good--only one mishap. The night of the Gino Dimario concert, with 45 minutes until we needed to leave, you had Pickles out for some floor time and he ran behind your bookcase...sigh. Now what!!! You can't call him like a dog! We set up a paper bag at each end and thankfully, he ran into one of them. He is cute...nips a little and loves his paper bag.
