The Newest Additions To the Drury Team

No we're not having another baby. We just added two guinea pigs. Can you believe I actually agreed to this? Alyssa and Shelby have been wanting a pet so bad. I thought the beta fish were enough and the poor things rarely get fed. We put a fence up thinking we would be getting a dog soon, but I guess they had another kind of animal in mind. We had just visited Petco and the girls held a guinea pig on Monday. I had said that if they would hold it we could get one someday, but they had to earn half of the money. Alyssa had already been on the Internet pricing things out. Can you believe she's only 8 and can figure out how to do that? Anyways we figured it would be around $90 to buy a new cage and all the works. I thought they would forget about it by the time they earned $45. Anyways...I was putting some old baby items on craigslist and told the girls they could look at the pets. Maybe someone would be giving away a free cage or talk them into a dog instead. Well a half an hour before we started looking, a lady was giving away her guinea pigs with everything for free. She even had two. One is Mannie and one is Emmy. The girls and Bryson love them so far. We're still getting use to them. I still haven't even held them, but they mostly hold Mannie because Emmy is still a little afraid of us. Wouldn't you be? She must be the smart one.

Alyssa and Shelby even slept in their own rooms next to their piggies last night. Alyssa chose Mannie and Shelby chose Emmy. Emmy only has one eye. Alyssa told Shelby that she's lucky because she gets the unique one. Shelby got mad and said, "She's not unique, she's Emmy." Oh, Shelbers!!!