We Can Still Have Baby Chimichangas!

We got our chinchillas almost a week ago. They are so much fun. We got our new cage in the mail yesterday along with a ton of accessories thanks to an awesome auction on EBay!

The pet store lady told us we had a boy and a girl so we trusted her. But I didn't know which one was which. So when I got home I got online to a little chinchilla research. One article showed which is male and which is female so I decided to violate the chinchillas to see for sure. They hate being on their back or held upright so I had to look fast and they both looked exactly the same to me!

I told the boys that I was sorry but we wouldn't be having baby chinchillas because they were both girls. Tayton quickly informed me "Mom don't girls have babies? So since we have two girls won't we just have more babies than if we only had one girl?"

I really wasn't ready for that conversation just yet! So of course I just told him there has to be a boy too to help make the babies. He asked how? Grrr I thought I was off the hook. So of course I did what any mom like me would do. I lied! Well not technically. I told him that the boys have to give the girls some stuff that helps make the baby. But I wasn't about to go into the whole story. Isn't the dad supposed to have that talk with the boys in the family?

Luckily upon further investigation from my dear friend Amber we found out that Pikachu is indeed a male! Korbin is mad as hell that his chinchilla is a girl!