So as Memom told you all I became the mother of a baby bunny on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon John looked out the front door and hollered at me. Outside there was one very tiny baby bunny. He was only about 2 inches long and his eyes were still closed. There was fur stuck in our front door mat where it looked like the mom had been up there as well. I called our friend who is a vet and he told me that there was probably nothing I could do and hopefully the mom would come back that night and get him. He said I could give him some baby formula if I wanted to try it. Now with a baby you would think I would have formula, but Brooklynn is a very picky eater. Breast milk only and only from the natural source - no bottle for this girl! So I got out a sample pack we had received through the mail and fixed a little up and fed it to him through a syringe. In the morning, we went and checked on him. He was still there so I fed him again through a syringe. I called the wildlife rehabilitation people and left a message. They called me after I got to work and told me they would not come get him, but they would tell me what I could do to take care of him if I chose to.
I told the lady I wanted to know so she told me to go get some Esbilac.
"What is Esbilac? Where do I get it? I do not save bunnies lives for a living so I don't know these things"
"You can buy Esbilac at PetSmart. Get the regular kind not the kind with goat's milk. Just keep him warm and you'll have to stimulate him to go to the bathroom like his mom would."
Okay folks, I have never been a mommy bunny so I had no idea how to make a baby bunny go to the bathroom and I swear this woman thought I was an idiot when I asked her how to do it. FYI, just in case you need to make a baby bunny go to the bathroom you use a warm moist cotton ball and rub its nether regions.
So I went to PetSmart and picked up the Esbilac and then went and got baby Thumper. I brought him back to school and fed him. He stayed at school and was doing well. He ate again Monday night and Tuesday morning and then it was back to school. Tuesday was picture day at school so I was in the back coordinating all that when my assistant director came and told me Thumper had gone to bunny heaven.
It was very sad. All the kids were asking about where he was so it was a good opportunity to teach them about life and death.
Tuesday night John, Brooklynn, and I buried Thumper in the back yard. In a strawberry poptart box because he was more a strawberry bunny than a brown sugar cinnamon bunny.
Here is a picture of my baby:
Brooklynn is the most adorable baby... The shot with her Daddy at DD is priceless..
What a sweet little baby! Like ET said I miss that age for about a minute or two and then...I am over it! 
I know you all will have a blast with her on this trip. What a special trip this will be.
goes...I am with ya! I am a barefoot girl myself. I guess it must be a southern thang! I know shoes are a necessary evil but I really prefer to be barefoot...au natural. I am married to a NYer and he wears shoes all the time...says he doesn't like grass to touch his feet.
sad, sad...
I like your style.
Hey there my tiara friends
....Glendamax, ET, & Umama 
