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Clarissa is 6 months!

Today Clarissa Joy is six months and like you may expect, it is hard to see where the time has gone.

Last week we finally took Clarissa to get her ears pierced which resulted in a renewal of the other two girls wanting to wear their earrings too. Many thought we got them all pierced at the same time since they all had earrings on. It's hard enough to do one!

Clarissa has yet to roll over, but there isn't a big rush on that, but she has started to eat rice cereal, but she doesn't understand why we would change things on her now. I posted a Youtube video of it if you like to see the cuteness in action.

As with each monthly shot of Clarissa, I also take a shot at where her sisters are at. It turns out that Ariana is wearing her appropriate titled shirt "Sweet And Mischievous" and Alaina sporting her new look of missing two teeth with the third one about to fall any day now!

Pet Owners

Okay guys, so we got Guinea Pigs.  Although we have learned that since they are not Bovines, they are in fact part of the Rodent family, they are not pigs at all.  The correct terminology is Cavy (long A).  Well we've had them for two weeks now, and they make the cutest little chittering noises.  We have two females named Chai and Latte.  I haven't find a bedding I like...wood chips aren't very good, the recycled paper product is good but they can really throw it far!  Right now I have diapers down.  Yes really, cloth diapers.  I find I am changing bedding nearly every day anyway.  They are messy!  Although they love pomegranates, it doesn't agree with them.  Stick to lettuce; they love it and eat far more of it than I do.  Perhaps that is due to overzealous daughters that delight in them.  I have to watch or theymight get fat.  I'm not sure I would be able to tell!   Although they are babies now, they are built like sausages with legs. Right now they are the size of my hand, but grown they'll be the size of Chris' shoes.  

Ariana's goal in life is to scare them.  Every time she walks by the cage she says "ROAR" and delights in watching them scamper away to hide.  They perhaps do not realize this is a threat, though, because sometimes it takes as many as three "ROARS" before they decide to scamper away.  Oh yes, a three year old on a power trip.  Alaina loves to watch them.  They are not perhaps the most athletic creatures though.  When sent to "run" out of the cage, they tend to hover behind the toilet or under the shower curtain.   And I swear they produce droppings about every fifteen minutes.  It is amazing.  My life seems to be about poo anyway, so what's a bit more?

They are really fun though.