Hamster tales

[hearthstone]

I now have the distinction of being the first person Elder Daughter's hamster has bitten. No, I wasn't swinging him by his little tail :). I was holding him, carefully and gently I thought, while she changed the litter in his cage. Two little pin-prick puncture marks in the palm of my hand. Then he tried climbing my shirt, obviously trying to obtain access to my neck--well, we weren't having any of that!

So I was calling him "Dracula" and she asked me if that meant he was a "hampire." Well, that did it, and now I have all sorts of fun annoying the kid with hampire jokes. Her uncle pronounced him one of the "hamsteratu." This could be a long weekend :).