bunnies

A Typical Saturday?

This morning, we ventured out to run some errands, as is our custom on Saturday mornings. Today’s errands, however, involved a trip to Rural King. Now, I bet you’re wondering why in the world we would be going to Rural King. Well, they had some new items in stock that we needed to check out.

I bet you can imagine which member of our family was happiest about this stop!

Actually, all of the children were enthralled by the bunnies. Ladybug was very amused that this bunny seemed intent on eating the flowers off of her dress!

We also learned that some unsuspecting customer may get a big bunny surprise–we watched one of the girl bunnies jump the fence into the boy bunny side, and also saw a boy bunny attempting the same feat in the opposite direction! Someone’s going to get a little more bunny than they bargained for, I’m sure!

I, for one, am amazed that we made it out of the store without buying one. It’s very difficult to resist a face this cute!

What’s a Hobbit?

I left The Hobbit laying on the bed in the school room (which doubles as a guest room, if you’re wondering why we have a bed in there) in the hopes that Turkey or Bunny might pick it up and try to read it.

Bunny didn’t disappoint…I put the book in there last night, and she came to me this morning and asked if we could read it. I told her that if she wanted to read it, she could go right ahead. Of course she said that she will. But then she looked at me and asked, “What’s a Hobbit?”

So, I looked for words for a quick, simple explanation. I landed on “a mythical creature; short, big feet, kind of hairy.”

She thought about it for a minute and said, “Oh. Kind of like a bunny.”

Well, I can’t argue with that assessment, given the information I provided her. It also doesn’t help that the book begins:

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

She was quick to point out to me that a hobbit house sounds an awful lot like a hutch or burrow. Given what little she knows about hobbits, and what she’s learned so far, I guess I have to agree that they sound rather rabbit-y. I sure wish I could see the mental image in her head right now!