The Newest Member of our Family: Simon

After lots of reading, planning and negotiation, we made a trip on October 2nd to pick up the newest member of our family.  After holding a lot of rabbits, we finally decided that Simon was the rabbit for us.

Simon is a one-year-old Rhinelander with beautiful markings.

For the first couple of days all I wanted to do was watch him, especially when he was eating and washing up.  He is just so adorable!

Each of us has had a chance to bond with him, and he is so very, very tolerant of the boys.

Austin likes to share his apples with Simon.  Austin also likes to steal his carrots and eat them himself!

Trevor loves to give Simon a goodnight kiss almost every night.

Simon likes to ride in the car with us and if we go to the park, Simon comes too.  Today Simon had a chance to go to Preschool as part of "R" week.  The kids adored him, and he tolerated their petting and grabbing.  It helped that I brought some raisins for them to feed him as a treat.  :)

Simon is smart too.  If the boys close his cage and he gets hungry, he'll just climb into the bag of timothy hay for a quick snack.

He also knows what he likes and what he doesn't like.  Apparently, plastic keys are not a favorite and he doesn't like to share his bed with Austin.

Simon has been the perfect pet for our family and we love him a lot. 

And he seems to like us too.