Dusty in labor.
Note the blue butterfly clip in his hair!

... to 3 pigs, 7 lizards and 1 naked mole rat. Oh yes, it was an exhausting day of labor.

I knew Dusty was going to get it when he started playing buddy pals with my daughter the last couple of days. I thought she might put a dress on him or try to paint his nails after he let her put hair clips on him. Oh no, today he got to participate in the Labor and Delivery game.

He slept through most of it, he was tired from all the pushing and such. My daughter had him covered in a blanket, she then put toilet paper on his neck ('cause he worked up a sweat) and by god she stuck that blue butterfly clip back on his head so he would look pretty when the babies were born. Every once and awhile she would tell him to push and dab his forehead with the toilet paper. Somehow he managed to fall and stay asleep through all of her manhandling. She went and got some small toy animals and then pretending to pull them out of his butt. (He never moved!) And viola! Dusty is now a proud mama and he really did look stunning in his blue butterfly hair clip!

Copyright © Tambra Jo Gwozdz
August 5, 2001