Life: People, Pets, and Personality!
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I have added a puppy to my family. His name is Ike. Named after Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is a sweet little peek-a-poo. He’ll lick you to death. Anyway, he is the cutest dog in the entire world. I may be a little bias, but I think you’d agree with me.
 I have a gerbil named Flash. He became the class pet when school started in August. I decided that Flash was lonely. (Me and 22 kids aren’t enough for him). I decided Flash needed a friend. So back I went to PETCO to buy another gerbil. I told my kids they were pretend brothers. This one’s name was Rocket. Flash and Rocket. Our pet gerbils. Yay for gerbils who are pretend brothers! I left them with Greg over Christmas break. Well, somehow we ended up with a Christmas miracle in the form of 8 new gerbils. So… now I have 10 gerbils. Turns out one of my “male” gerbils is not so male. Quite a female. So now we have Flash and Rockette… and 8 babies.
 I know you're curious, because I sure was, too. It turns out that 8 is the MOST gerbil babies a gerbil can have. They can have between 1 and 8 babies. Trust MY gerbils to be the best of the best. When I didn't even want gerbil babies. However, they are so cute. they are not as ugly as the above picture shows. Now all their eyes are open and they are walking around. I wish I could keep them all. I went to the petstore to inform them that the "male" gerbils they sold me had produced more gerbils. They told me they would adopt out the babies when they were old enough. And they would trade the two gerbils I had for ones they knew were the same sex. I realize they are just gerbils, but TRADE them in??? As if they mean nothing to me? I was insulted. Needless to say, I will be keeping Flash and Rockette... I will just be keeping them far away from each other from now on.
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