As you all know by now, I'm terrible at uploading pictures, but I'll give this a try.
My daughter -- the 19-year-old who just got settled back out in Arizona for her second year at college -- went out and got herself a mini lop-eared bunny who is now named Cleopatra.
She's only three months old, and weighs four pounds. Apparently, she won't get any bigger than this.
I KNOW why she got the bunny. This daughter is looking forward to the time when she can have a gazillion children of her own, and I guess that the bunny is her first step towards that goal...!!! Little Cleopatra is already spoiled rotten.
Nesting instincts, huh, Moore? Your daughter's bunny's a good substitute and the little wabbit won't grow up, mouth off, date unsuitable other bunnies, then go to the far side of the planet and get sick.
aww what a cute bunny..Im not a big fan of them because to me they are just rodents with really big ears. I want to get Jolene a turtle, though I am sure she will go through the hamster/gerbil/rabbit phase. Is it weird that I would rather have a reptile then a rodent? Anyways, good call on the rabbit being a good substitute for kids...And they take lots of time that she may otherwise spend out partying in Tempe
bunnies are cute but the poop is so yucky and they chew on everything, but while I had mine I did enjoy spoiling him with strawberries and all kinds of treats I looked up on the internet.
Shelly, we have a small turtle, and he's adorable. My daughter got him last year in Mexico, and kept him out in Arizona until she came home for the summer. Once she transported the tank, turtle, etc., she decided to leave him here.
I had a tiny turtle when I was about eleven, and I loved him. KaeEll had one too! They really do have more personality than you would expect them to have.
KaeEll, my daughter went out and bought everything that her "wabbit" will need. They apparently do chew a lot, Tina, so she got him a special wooden stick so that he won't go for the furniture! But, Shelly -- they're NOT rodents! (They're lagomorphs, and evolved separately from the rodents.) You have no idea how much I dislike rodents, even though we DID have two hamsters many years ago. They were cute; they reminded me of little Beatrix Potter characters, and I could imagine them in tiny little clothes. (Okay -- I need to lay off of the wine.) But, I could never go so far as having a pet mouse or rat. Major ewww!!!
Anyway, my daughter most definitely IS nesting with Cleopatra, and understands that since she took on the responsibility of having a pet, she's also responsible for the vet bills! We have our own vet bills with the dog... She doesn't really party much, Shelly, unless it's with really close friends. She's nineteen, but she always tells us that she's really a little old lady at heart! She loves to cook, loves kids, likes to garden, and she even crochets. LOL! Not that she hasn't been KNOWN to party, and has had TWO occasions now when she over-indulged. (She confessed both.) This last time was in her new apartment, and she felt so horrible the next day that she swore it would never happen again. I believe her! This past Friday night, she had a "girls' night" at the apartment (about five of them), and it was an entirely dry evening.
She's honestly more interested giving adult-type dinner parties than she is in going out on a binge with the college bunch!
Fine with me... She's supposed to be studying anyway!
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Thats awesome, you got yourself a great kid there moore. I cant say that at her age I lived a very "dry" life. Though I was in the Navy, and i will use that as my excuse. I am totally dry now.
And I know they arent rodents, but to me they still look like it.
Thank you, Shelly -- but she's no saint either! However, I have to say that she IS a very reliable young lady who was absolutely MORTIFIED that experimenting with what Appletinis tasted like, with a girlfriend, made her so seriously ill... And, they only had two each!
As she explained to her dad and me by phone the day after, "You guys JUST got me all of this nice stuff for my apartment, and even trusted me to keep a little alcohol in the apartment for cooking and for entertaining friends over 21, and I feel like I completely betrayed your trust in me, and did EXACTLY what I've always said is so STUPID that kids my age do! I'm so, so sorry, and I swear that I'm never going to drink anything like that again."
We took that opportunity to explain to her about liability issues, and told her to put EVERYTHING but the Sherry (which she uses for cooking purposes) away in a box, at the back of her closet, so that no underage visitors would be tempted!
We've never been anal about allowing our kids to have a little wine or champagne when growing up, or about allowing them to have a taste of something that their dad or I might order when we're out (like a Margarita, or some such thing). Our oldest daughter, who is 24, drinks a little bit, but not a whole lot, and she doesn't like the strong stuff. Wine or Amaretto/cream, Khalua, maybe a tropical something...that kind of thing.
Our son doesn't drink at all (will be 23 in November). He just doesn't care to; he says it's because he watched too many of his friends get "stupid", and feels it's all pointless. I'm pretty sure that he also doesn't especially like the way that alcohol tastes. Again -- fine with me! It's hardly a necessity of life. Back when he was a junior in high school, he went on a ten-day trip to Italy, and we signed all of the permission slips that would allow him to have wine on the trip. He DID indulge on the trip because he felt that it was part of the overall experience, and also because his group of eight frequently ate in private homes where wine was offered with the meal. He felt that it would be a bit impolite to decline the offered beverage!
And, then THIS daughter has certainly done her share of sipping, but more often than not, she has been the one to declare herself the designated driver since her friends tend to indulge far more than she does now, or ever will. But she's far more comfortable being home if there's some reason why she wants to have something to drink -- which is rare. Lately, however, she's wanted to have a small glass of Baileys Irish Cream before going to bed, but I think that the novelty of that will soon wear off... I think it's all part of her wanting to learn about how the various cordials taste so that she'll know what to offer guests, and cook with down the road.
At least she's honest about her occasional poor choices...!!! Her dad and I never even would have KNOWN about the Appletinis if she hadn't telephoned us for the specific purpose of making her confession.
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that is awesome...my parents were pretty lenient with drinking for us....But my dad is an alcoholic so we were always lectured. I went through a phase in the Navy where I even worried myself. But I think a lot of it really was because thats what everyone else was doing. And I was always one of those weird people who liked the way certain alcohols tasted...But the second I got pregnant I quit and have had maybe 5 drinks since. So while I worried myself I must not have been that bad or I wouldnt have been able to quit
