| My son is the oldest and as with many oldest in a | | | | their money and watched the news paper for ads |
| family he is very responsible and a high achiever. Our | | | | for animals for sale so that they could buy them. We |
| oldest daughter is very soft spoken and kind hearted. | | | | were lucky that we had a large garden shed and a |
| She is constantly reaching out to anyone or anything | | | | large yard to accommodate all the animals for sale |
| in need. Our youngest daughter is hell on wheels. She | | | | ads that the three of them answered. I also love |
| is a dare devil and thrill seeker. There are times when | | | | animals so I did not discourage them from getting |
| my husband and I joke that if she had been our first | | | | the animals; however I did start to realize that the |
| born we would only have one child. She was able to | | | | food for the menagerie of pets was starting to cost |
| get out of her crib by age nine months. She has | | | | more than our grocery budget. We had three rabbits, |
| never wanted to miss out on one minute of anything | | | | two dogs, four cats a parakeet, many fish and a |
| that is going on around her. | | | | turtle. My main rule was that there were to be no |
| Although their personalities are very different from | | | | reptiles in the house. I did not mind the turtle, but I |
| one another the children get along very well. One | | | | refused to have snakes, lizards or and other crawling |
| thing that they all share is their love of animals. They | | | | reptile. |
| are the only children I know of that actually pooled | | | | |