Single Parenting

Glitter, Glue and an Unsuspecting Guinea Pig

My four year old LOOOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEES our guinea pig, Blaster. I don’t know that Blaster returns the depth of affection though. Poor guy – I think he’s resigned to the attention. She asks sweetly, “Can I hold the pig?”

She loves to hold Blaster. Now that she has learned how to hold him without his eyes bugging out, it is a sweet thing rather than something that might require trauma counseling for Blaster. One of the first times she held Blaster I found her holding him over the potty literally trying to squeeze the stuffing out of the poor thing. I convinced her that Blaster didn’t need assistance in that area. She has since let nature take its course.

Our most recent adventure with Blaster was a new look (or two) she created for him. She had him in the foyer on a blanket surrounded by carrots. I thought it was so cute. He seemed happy. I might have wanted to investigate a little bit more, but I had dinner to make. I left them for a couple of minutes to turn something on and somehow or another in that tiny interlude, Blaster got a new look.

When I returned to the foyer, Blaster was very VERY shiny. My cutie had covered him with lip gloss. And when I say covered…I mean covered. This is one of those times I really want to know what she was thinking! How did she go from a tube of lip gloss to the guinea pig…well, I guess I’ll never figure that out…

I really should have taken pictures. Needless to say he was placed safely in his cage after that. Until….

The following day my 5 year old was doing a craft project with glitter. Word to the wise… don’t ever EVER buy glitter. There is NO worthy use for the stuff the warrants the amount of mess it produces. I had purchased it for a craft I did with my piano students at our Christmas party. I’m still finding glitter in weird places!

Anywho….She found my glitter stash because I wasn’t smart enough to throw it away after the party. The craft project consisted of paper, copious amount of glue, lots and lots of glitter and somehow a very unaware guinea pig. Oh poor, poor shiny, glittery Blaster.  

I need to be a better guinea pig mommy. .

Lip gloss, glitter and a guinea pig…not so good for the pig but sure did give me a hearty laugh.

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