In the madness that is my life, I forgot to mention the newest members of the Fleck household. Meet the Berbils!
Err, I mean gerbils. Kelly calls them "berbils" in an excited high pitched voice that sends the furry rodents scurrying around the cage. It's my fault we have them, several months ago, my aunt mentioned mating their gerbils and asked if we would want any. Not really thinking, I said sure! Cause I figured that the gerbils either wouldn't do the deed or there would only be a couple of gerbil babies and my aunt's kids would want to keep them. And then my aunt called a month ago and said "we have 12 gerbil babies, how many do you want?" *gulp*
It's actually not a bad thing because we've had this empty 30 gallon aquarium and stand sitting in our foyer for years. Once we had fish but Zach (age 2 at the time) decided they needed a drink and unknown to us, dumped a cup of milk into the tank. Which heated to 80 degrees and smelled really bad and killed all the fish. Now he knows that fish drink water, not milk.
So Greg bought the gerbil supplies and I brought home 3 female gerbils about two weeks ago. Notice the colorful pieces, Greg wanted to match the tropical fish background. hehe The gerbils are still nameless, we're bad at naming things. Like Kelly didn't have a name until she was a day old. We only knew she was coming for 8 months, you'd think that would have been plenty of time. So the gerbils might have a name other than "Berbils!" in about a year. *shrugs*
Oh yeah, I've already told all the kids that gerbils drink water, not milk.
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