You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis

Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yiheng

On Dreaming

When slumber seals our weary eyes,

The busy fancy wakeful keeps;

The scenes which then before us rise,

Prove something in us never sleeps.

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As in another world we seem,

A new creation of our own,

All appears real, though a dream,

And all familiar, though unknown.

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~~John Newton "On Dreaming"

For some people, dreams are a manifestation of anxieties or dominating thoughts in a person's life. If someone has something on their mind when they go to bed, often it will surface in their dreams.

For others, dreams have no relation to anything going on in their life or conscious thought. It is a time for things to surface in one's mind that would never emerge while in a wakeful state.

I definitely fall into the latter category. My dreams are vivid and fantastical. I will often wake up from a dream and think two things: where did that come from and, that would make a great movie! I enjoy my dreams, how far they take me in my imagination. The details are always very minute: from the bark on a tree to the sense of emotion. I get caught up in my dream's adventures, journeys, and secrets. Something in me certainly never sleeps--I am glad it doesn't.

The Trio

Breakfast time with Mommy. The babies are already eating hay, nibbling on the pelleted food, and today tasted their first apple.









Pumpkin, Patch, and Pie--they are very cooperative and don't seem upset when I take them from Buttercup. They constantly make little squeaks that are so precious.

Pie (aka PJ or Pippen Jr.)--the littlest of the bunch, and the fluffiest too. He is too adorable!

Names!

Okay....drum roll please!

Introducing: Pumpkin, Patch, and Pie.

Pumpkin is the orange and white one and I believe she is a girl.

Patch is the one with an all black head, also believed to be a girl.

Pie is the striped nosed one and I think he is a boy.

That being said--I am only about 25% sure about their genders--probably won't be able to confirm this until 2 or 3 weeks of age. Good thing we picked gender neutral names.

Last But Not Least

This baby was hiding under mommy when I came down after work to check on them, so I saw this one last. It was hard to get a good picture--very squirmy.

Baby Number Two

The second baby I saw--this one is the smallest, but also was the first one to run from one end of the cage to the other all alone.

First Baby

This is the biggest baby--and also the one I saw first!

Babies!

We came home from work today to find that Buttercup had her babies--three of them! They were all dry and clean, so it had been at least a few hours since they were born. We don't know what sex they are yet--don't want to tramatise them too much on their first day. We are thinking of names, and I'll post more pictures tomorrow. They really are the cutest little things ever!!!