One cat is not enough...

for four children. Our cat, Butterscotch, has proven herself to be a "one-kid cat" and that kid is Jonah. She sleeps on his bed, if he sits on the couch, she sits on his lap. The rest of us are just here for her amusement and to bring her food and water, I guess. Well, this has led to Isaiah and Ella asking for more pets. Isaiah thinks a dog would be swell and Ella has begun longing for a kitten. For the last month she has been asking every day, heartbroken when I tell her we don't intend to have any more indoor animals. And then an add came across the homeschool wire for two free rabbits, hutches included. We met the rabbits and the kids loved them.

This is Ella with "Cookies and Cream". She carries it around singing to it like a little mother. She's in rabbit heaven.

The hutches came to us in a bit of disrepair. The shingles were not attached and they needed a painting. Thankfully, I have three kids who were perfect for this job. They handled it all themselves, with a little advice from Ron about shingles. Here's the before picture:

One coat of primer and two coats of paint later (with almost as much paint on Ella as there was on the hutch). We had our "new" hutches. Here's the crew. Isaiah is holding his rabbit, "Thumper".


By the way, they are both male rabbits. So, no baby rabbits in our future...for now. I had thought it would be a neat experience to have a female and see her have a litter. (Is that my husband groaning I hear?)