Lots of updates
No real time/inclination to write, but thought I’d throw some updates in here just for the sake of continuity.
Baby hamsters seem to have all died/been eaten by mom(?). We gave Yoshimi a new home, but s/he was still able to get back & forth from one cage to the other via tube (and, because the tubes occupied the same physical space that the old tower (where s/he would sleep) used to occupy, s/he started just sleeping in the connecting tubes). I didn’t see Yoshimi over in the old cage very often though. More often it was Hamtaro (baby-mamma) who was over in Yoshimi’s cage, stealing all of his/her food.
Whenever I would see Hamtaro off of her nest in the exercise wheel, I would try to get a count. Always hopeful, even when the count was less than last time, that one of the babies was just burrowing under the bedding, so I couldn’t see/count it. Count went down to 5, then 4, then 2 for a few days. Now, yesterday, I couldn’t find the babies anywhere. And, Hamtaro didn’t seem as anxious to run back to the wheel whenever she saw me looking. Now, maybe she moved them somewhere else in the cage (there’s a new pile of bedding underneath the ‘floor’ of the cage, in the ‘basement’ (it’s a 2-layered environment)). But, I tried looking & didn’t see any movement there last night.
So, if I still don’t see life, today, when I get home from work, I’m going to clean out the cages (which are stinky, because I’ve been trying to not disturb the bedding - trying not to freak mommy out). Sigh… The kids seem OK with this possibility. I think, more than anything, I’m sad -and- going to have to fight some real creepy grossed out feelings whenever I interact with Hamtaro for a while.
When we were on vacation (before we even got the hamsters), the kids had made up this little song that went ‘Baby Hamtaro, won’t you listen to me?’. Jim added a macabre twist to it for me last night (didn’t share this one with the kids, yet…) - ‘Baby-eating Hamtaro, won’t you listen to me?’. :shudder:
On another note…
Went to Beatlefest on Saturday with Allison. Fun! I hadn’t been there in years. It was nice having a day with just the two of us, away from the little ones. I did find myself missing them from time to time. But, I also found myself appreciating the fact that I didn’t have to take care of them from time to time, too. I appreciated being with a ‘big kid’ who didn’t need my undivided attention, didn’t need me always worrying about where she was, who was watching her, did she need food, drink, etc.
Beatlefest wasn’t as busy as I remember it being. Which was both nice & kind of sad. Maybe it’s just that people are economizing a bit this year. They didn’t show as many Beatles movies, TV shows, etc this year, either. Apparently they showed Hard Days Night on Friday night. But, no ‘Help!’, no ‘Magical Mystery Tour’, no ‘Let it Be’, no ‘Yellow Submarine’. And, most of the stuff in the video room seemed to be concert footage. :yawn:
We celebrated Al’s birthday on & off all weekend. Nothing spectacular all at once, just lots of little celebrations.
