Rattie love during a busy week

Despite the insanity that will soon overwhelm me, the babies continue to do things that make me smile:



I also think that we will be bringing them over to campus more often, as the majority of people have not freaked out over little fluffballs crawling on them.

Two weeks ago, we moved the little girls (Panya and Luffy) in with the big girls (Peaches and the twins), restoring the large cage back to its full height. Pumpkin and Bridget get to stay in their own cage, as Bridget will escape through the other cage's bars no matter how many books we stack on top of it. The meeces know have the little girls cage.






Rodent Fest Countdown: 10 days to go!

Many Pictures! (because I am so late in posting)

Since it is such a beautiful spring day, I decided to get out our Easter baskets and take some pictures of the girls. Ricky has also cuddled Peaches into submission by holding her on her back and giving her tummy scritches.


She stopped squirming!



The famous "durr" face of the Peach.


And EVERYONE managed to sit still enough for me to capture decent still frames during the Easter Basket photo shoot. From youngest to oldest:

Panya


Luffy


Mimi


XingXing


Pumpkin


Bridget


Peaches


Chloe and Leanne (Sweet P was in hiding)



With the craziness of the end of the semester, Ricky and I are looking forward to Rodentfest, which will be in a few weeks. This year it is being held at Leesport, PA on May 2. I hope to catch up with some of the people I met at Rodentfest in the fall, help my friends find some great rats, and maybe get a few more meeces for myself along with the tons of rat goodies we will inevitable be getting for the girls.

Rodent Fest pics in a few weeks!

So so busy

It's been nearly a month since I've updated on anything, which has been due to a ridiculous spring break and the ridiculous amount of work that piles up during the second half of spring semester. This weekend I hope to take some cute pics and video that I'll upload. Here are some quick updates:

Panya has gotten HUGE. Huge. As in she's almost twice the size of Luffy and almost half her age. Ricky and I are amazed at her ability to eat everything in her path and fluff out more every day.

Ever since I began rewarding Pumpkin and Bridget with yogies every time they wandered out of their cage, they've actually been eager to get out and play when everyone else has playtime. The power of a yogie.

Peaches is, of course, still the queenie, despite Pumpkin's attempts to overthrow her adorable dumbo regime.

And....

could it be?

Another baby?

Due to the fiasco of false pregnancies that occured at the beginning of this year, we ended up adopting Panya instead of a girl from Blue Heaven Rattery. Now that BHR will be breeding Stewie (a wonderful dumbo Russian Blue self), I have slowly been convincing Ricky that we need a dumbo blue self. We will see.