Meet Ginger.

We have a new addition to the family.

Not the baby girl...

that's not until January...

Richard was helping a family move 

and they said unfortunately there was a member of their family 

that they couldn't bring with them,

so could we take care of her for them.

Well, what were we going to do?

Leave her out on the street!

So we inherited a hamster.

Ginger.

Ginger loves being squeezed until her eyes pop out.

And Parker tries to make her do circus tricks.

Mitchell, well...

A two-year-old handling a living thing is always precarious...

But despite my hesitation with small creatures living inside my house

{excluding my children of course}

We have come to like her.

She makes us laugh.

When she runs around the house in her ball, 

Colette laughs harder than I've ever seen her before!

And when Mitchell walks into the room, 

she gets in defense mode,

and starts hissing...

Fun times.

{But I secretly hope she dies before the baby is born... nothing personal.}