"But their mothers will be sad"

Just a quick note about our tender-hearted daughters....Tonight Josh brought home some baby mice from the pet store.  They are called fuzzies cause they have hair but they are still very tiny.  He brought them home with the intention of feeding them to his Arowana (one of his fish that is about a foot long).  However, the girls caught sight of them before the feeding frenzy was able to begin and you can guess what happened.  The girls latched on to them right away, naming them Jaq and Gus-Gus, and not wanting to put them down.  I have to admit they were very cute little critters.  The girls wanted to know if they could keep them, and I, not wanting to lie, and also wanting them to face the realities of owning super large fish, told them what the plan was.  

They immediately were up in arms and tears started to well up in the corner's of Kenady's eyes.  That one I saw coming but I didn't expect Presley to have the same reaction.  She said, "We can't feed them to the fish, or else their mothers will be sad..."  She couldn't finish because she got choked up with tears and emotions.  Then the waterworks came from both of them.

So I asked them what we should do with them and they said we should take them back to their mothers.  (you can't keep them because they will die, we called the pet store to see if we could keep them as pets after we saw how much the girls loved them, but the answer was no.  They said we could try to feed them with a syringe full of milk every 2 hours (not happening), but they would still probably die after not too long.)  

So I thought Josh was going to say that he was taking them back but then feed them to the fish anyway, nope, we all loaded up in the car and took back the baby mice to their mothers.  

Sidenote:  in between the time that we decided to take them back and when we actually took them back, the girls got out their littlest pet shop stuff and played house with the baby mice.  They were sitting in the the pet shop's house and swinging in the pet shops swing, they made nice soft beds for them, oh yeah, it was quite a sight.  

Anyway,  sleep well baby mice, back with your mother. ( I don't think I would have had the heart to feed them to the Arowana either, they were pretty dang cute for rodents!)