Gorgeous photos, Brandy!!!
We're having kind of a tragic night here tonight. A few hours ago, we were carving pumpkins and as I finished, I told the kids to go to the playroom and get their jammies. A few minutes later, my son (he's 4) ran upstairs to tell me he accidentally knocked over one of the hamster cages and the wheel and water bottle fell out. I followed him downstairs to assess the damage and found the cage back up on the plastic picnic table but the hamster laying lifeless and outstretched. I picked her up and she was warm and limp, but her eyes were closed and she wasn't moving. My son began bawling, hyperventilating, extremely apologetic, and said "Is she dead, Mommy?"
He cried for 45 minutes straight before he fell asleep. He is taking this harder than his sister (it was her hamster), and feels so much guilt and remorse. He is heartbroken over this. It is so heartbreaking to see him cry and feel so much guilt over an accident.
It's been almost two hours and I've had the hamster wrapped in a blanket and she is in the bathroom, pitch dark, and warm, but her body is icy cold and stiff now. She is gone
A funeral will be planned for November 1, so they can enjoy trick or treating. I just don't know how to ease his guilt. Each time I tell him it wasn't his fault and it was an accident, he cries harder and says it was his fault and he wishes she would be alive again