A sad day in our house

This morning, as he does most mornings, Luke woke and went straight to the guinea pigs' cage to tell his little buddies, Bugsie and Spike, good morning. The next thing I heard was crying...the poor little guy had discovered that Bugsie had died during the night, and he was heartbroken.

Bugsie has been Luke's constant companion since his birthday last year. They have had many

adventures together over the past year, and many games of hide-and-seek for the whole family (FYI guinea pigs love to hide, and 3-4yr olds are not very good at keeping track of them). The first thing that Luke does when company walks through the front door, is to get Bugsie out of his cage and bring him to say hello...whether the guest was an animal lover or not!

Before leaving for school, Luke told me "Now I know what I want to do with my birthday money. I don't want Spike to be lonely." Spencer then said that he thought all the kids should help to buy a new guinea pig. It's amazing how sweet they can be to eachother when they really need it. I love my sweet, tender-hearted boys! Even though they can be mean and nasty to eachother at times, they can be super sweet when the time is right.

It was hard to send him off to school, but I think he needed the distraction. I emailed his teacher to give her a heads-up. Hopefully his day goes well. Tonight we will have our first ever (unless you count the fish burials at sea) family pet burial. Wish us luck...oops, there goes Spike, running away from Brendan under the buffet UGH!! The guinea pig adventure continues...