Buster Brownie

Emilie has been asking for a guinea pig for about a year and a half now. Last summer with a new baby in the house, I refused to even talk about it :-P But since she has continued to ask, we didn't see any reason why she shouldn't have one.

So we went to Petco Friday night. They had gotten a new shipment of baby guinea pigs in on Thursday. Emilie picked out a brown and black male with one white paw. He is really little right now and cute as can be. It took him about 12 hours or so to seem at home in his new cage. He still hides in his house when the kids make a lot of noise (but who can blame him), but other than that he seems to be getting comfortable with us.

Emilie is in heaven and named him "Buster Brownie" since, you know, guinea pigs need middle names too. She is being very careful with him and also is doing a good job sharing him with her sisters- who are always dying to hold him too. Chloe also squeals and points every time she sees him. Anyway here's a few pictures. I haven't gotten anything great yet since he's hiding a lot right now.