Pink Hope

So little Miss Hope loves pink toys.   Here she is with several of them, and her discarded non pink duck toy in the background.  She arranges them herself and often has them grouped by color.

 So for Christmas a friend, her Auntie Maurine, sent her these two little balls.  Christmas evening I realized that she was only playing with one of them, even though they were both put in the same spot for her to play with after 'unwrapping them'.   Guess which one she was playing with........

If you guessed the one on the right (the one with 'pink'), you are correct!   What a hoot it is to live with her.

The not so fun part has been that she has had intermittent bouts of really terrible tummy troubles.   We have spent the better part of the past year trying to figure it out.  It isn't her regular diet, but we thought it might be something she was getting infrequently like treats for training.  So now she gets only her regular diet, no treats of any kind.

Which brings me back to Christmas, Auntie Maurine knew of the tummy issue so didn't sent any treats.  Not for Hope or for Halle B (Black Cat) Berry.   She did send a green (yes, Halle prefers green toys), rabbit fur mouse for Halle.   I saw it and thought hm, I hope that Hope doesn't try to eat it, but didn't act on that thought by putting it out of her reach.

Yesterday I found this

Yes, it is the little green mouse that was Halle's present, minus its tail, the 'fur' on it's head and part of its head and body.   I had shared the picture with another of Hope's aunties, Auntie Val, and said isn't it odd that she left the ears.  Val's reply?   Not odd at all, they are pink.

Oh right, we can't destroy the mousy ears, because they are pink! 

Priorities,  life is about priorities ......

and 

Pink.