Oh come on now!
I can hear all of you now....with your snubby little, "if that was my child, I would never...blah, blah, blah", but this is my child and I didn't say "no".
No matter how very much I wanted to.
My baby boy was looking (oh heck, he was peering at me) with those green eyes that just melts my heart and asking, "hey Mom, can I get the frogs up at the front?" "I'll use my birthday money and I'll take really good care of them and you won't have to do anything and they can stay in my room and the cats won't mess with them and they're really easy to take care of...since you said I couldn't get a rat". All of this on my baby boys birthday as we are standing at a fabulous little toy store that is within walking distance to the movie theater that we were just moments from walking into.
Good grief!
They were having a 20% off Pre-Thanksgiving sale for Pete's Sake!
I caved - after the movie.
I'm allowed and it made my baby's day. I don't earn a whole lot of "Mom Points", so it's nice every once in a while to bank some.
So, meet the newest additions to our family....or as I like to fondly call them: Cat Food.
Here is Spike and Monkey (don't ask) and Allie our fat rat of a cat.
Bless their little amphibian hearts.
I'm sure she is just babysitting, ensuring that they are acclimating to their new environment...seeing as how they should be up in my baby boy's room and not sitting on the buffet basking in the glow of Christmas lights.
