Our Newest Addition!

So last week Wesley and I were out on a Friday night with not much to do and so, in an impulsive moment, we decided to purchase a pet! Yay! Neither Wesley's mom nor mine were huge fans of pets, although my mom was a little more lenient (likely due to the fact that my dad had had pets growing up and so he supported the kids' desires for pets) and I had had a couple of pets. My very favorite pet that we had was a dwarf hamster named Gimli (from Lord of the Rings). Our impulsive moment was slightly propelled by my telling Wesley that I wanted to get a dwarf hamster. We went to Petco in Orem and were looking at the cute little hamsters. I showed Wesley what a dwarf hamster was and he said okay, we can get one. Yay! We had to buy the food and the fluff and a water bottle. and of course I wanted a cute little house, and he wanted to get a wheel for the hamster to run on....and on and on. My parents, or actually my brother who is on a mission, had a tank to use as a cage, so all we really needed was our hamster! We thus brought home Eowyn (another name from Lord of the Rings), whom we call Wyn, a female dwarf hamster. It took her a couple of days to get used to us and her new home, but she is so cute and lots of fun! We bought a ball for her, which mostly she just preens in, but sometimes runs around and Wesley has great fun creating mazes out of old shelves for her to run around in. She isn't very smart, as shown by the fact that she often dives off of our hands and can't stay on our arms as well as by the fact that she flips herself over sometimes when she is trying to dig her way out of Wesley's mazes. Still, she is adorable and we love watching her, especially in the evening when she has way more energy than we do and we can hear her squeaky wheel going in the living room (all night long!).This is her lovely squeaky wheel. I picked bright yellow to go against our annoying wood panels.

She looks so fat when she sits! I think she is actually fatter now than when we bought her a week ago. She eats so much!
She love to burrow down in the fluff! She has burrowed in three different corners now, but her favorite is the one behind her wheel.