My little baby boy is 18 now... I guess that makes me old... I'll be 43 two weeks from today... I'm not feeling it...
We gave Ryan his big gift last night, the rest he gets tonight at dinner. I ran to Des Moines and found him a hedgehog at Aqualand pet store after work last night. The guy there was SOOO nice that he gave me a book to give Ryan for free on how to care for it.
We sent Ryan to the movies with his sister to keep him gone for a while so we could set up the cage and all the goodies with it.
The hedgie is a girl and he has named her Penelope. She is adorable, if not just a little bristly. Such a sweet disposition. She'll crawl right up your arm and tuck herself into your armpit. Just make sure you wear a longer sleeved shirt than I did!
He was so shocked that we actually found one and actually gave it to him! He had been moping around last weekend that his siblings have pets, more than one in some cases, but not him. He used to have a couple lizards when he was younger and a wonderful Golden Retriever that I mostly cared for when he was 3 until 9 years old. But he doesn't remember those... What pet have you bought for me lately???..
So needless to say he was speechless and happy! I'll try to post pictures soon.
At bedtime last night, he gave me a hug and said "This is the last hug of your little boy. Tomorrow I am an adult." WHHAHAAAA!!!
He stayed up reading next to Penelope until midnight when a friend texted him some birthday wishes. And so he could experience the full affect of being an adult, set the alarm for 4:32am, the exact moment when I had given birth to him. Or rather had birth taken from me... It was an emergency C-Section. I'll tell you about it sometime when you get past the horror of my babysitting story... and can take some more shocks to your system.
Now he wants a tattoo....
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