Backyard Baby Bunny ~ Apr. 1, 2008

Brock & I were playing in the backyard, when I heard this squeaking sound. I looked over and noticed that our dog, Max, had caught something. I was terrified that it was a mouse, so we ran over to him and made him drop what he had in his mouth. I looked down and saw a little cottontail!!! I ran over and picked it up, and sure enough there was a tiny baby bunny. It was so cute and scared to death! Brock and I took him up to our patio and held it and cuddled it. Brock was so excited! I noticed later that it had a slight cut in its fur where Max bit it, but it didn't look like it had punctured the muscle at all and there was no bleeding, so we thought he'd be o.k. I went and woke Ryan up from his nap so he could see it and hold it before we let it go back to its mommy. A little while later I figured out that at some point the bunny had died. We were all very sad...especially Brock who wanted to keep it as his pet. We then had to deal with our first "death" issue. It was a lot of fun to hold the bunny and the kids now know that Grammy & Grandpa Brockman are playing with it up in heaven.