Ready & Waiting

Somebody is ready for Spring to get here :)

Winter Gray

Making the most of it :)

Merry & Bright

Hey Friends! I hope you had a very Merry Christmas! 

We had a wonderful, wonderful day full of love and excitement.

While the love and excitement is still in our hearts, Christmas is over so I'm going back to 

the subject of bunnies :)

Here they are- twenty days old! 

and yes, in case you were wondering... 

I took these with a new camera- the one my husband gave me for Christmas! 

New Kits on the Block

Well, it's been almost a month since I sat down here to write.

Much has happened but probably not much of it is very interesting so I'll share our most exciting news- 

we have six babies!

Can you tell what they are? 

Our rabbit, Cookie is a mamma!

They are so ugly, and so cute. 

They were born on the 5th of December.

I only held each one for a second to make sure they were alive- my hands were trembling, 

None of our rabbits have ever kindled before and I personally have never touched 

such a tiny, fragile creature.

I was also on the verge of freaking out because Cookie made her nest on the floor of her hutch instead of in the nesting box; and while I knew it was important to move the kits into the nesting box, I was terrified that she would abandon them. Rabbits can be really finicky if they feel threatened and

this particular mamma rabbit was 

really... um... grumpy during her pregnancy. 

 But her attitude has improved a lot- she actually lets me pet her again!  :)

Day 2: you can see their fur beginning to grow already!

I have lots of cell phone pictures and of course none of them are very good!

But I don't care. I'm so proud of Cookie and I'm so happy they are all still alive! Well, I let Cookie do all the work: she only nurses them once, in the early morning and when I check on them later in the day each belly is full and round. She pulled fur from her belly to make the nest all cozy and warm and the second day when the weather turned colder she gave them more of her fur- such a good mamma!

This baby is the most active so far and always seems to be on top of the bunny pile:)

Here is the same baby at one week of age!

And here she is today!

their eyes just opened yesterday and I brought them down to the house for their first exploration...

...apparently they still prefer to cuddle and sleep-
I hear you, baby!

No, we didn't fall off a cliff.

Yes... we are still here... 

We are doing just fine!

We have been busy enjoying the fall 

and not taking many photos at all.

 But it's nice to stop in here for a moment just to say hello

See you soon 

(hopefully that doesn't mean another 6 weeks)!

Nap Time

Somebody isn't sleepy...

I went into his room to encourage him to sleep and he said "Me baby. Peas sing me baby song" so I sang "Baby mine" to him. He giggled and propped his feet up on the side railing of the bed, just like he has been doing every day since he was a tiny baby.... ah kid, if only you knew how much I want you to stay a baby :)

Charlotte's (disposable) web

This is one interesting spider: 

we walked through discovered her web across our back door early one morning 

so we removed the web and put her in the bushes. 

Normal garden spider encounter.

Except she continued to rebuild her big old web across our door every night for a week and every morning the kids would come to the door and look for the big spider in the window. 

And then she would be evicted. Again.

You can see from this picture that our friend is starting to grow tired of this routine- she hasn't even bothered to weave her typically perfect zigzag pattern on the web- which makes sense, I suppose, since she knows this web will only last one night!