This morning started like every morning has started this week. Paige came running into my room asking if she could play with Sid. I gave her my normal answer, she could after breakfast. This is followed by a rushed breakfast and then asking for Sid to come down again.
This was however, the first morning that Paige didn't ask if Sid was still alive. The day we brought him home we warned her that Sid could die quickly, it was followed by her getting up from her nap asking if he was still alive; And rejoicing that he was.
I stood to reach for the mouse cage from the top of the bookcase but I realized quickly that something was wrong with the situation. The mouse did not move as I picked up the cage, and continued to lay still as I brought it down to eye level. Sid was not breathing.
Thoughts started to race through my mind. How do I tell her? What do I do? What is the quickest way to remove him with out making it a big deal? What is she going to say...?
Paige is a quick little girl. Before I could do anything, she figured out what had happened and started to cry.
My little Paige has a broken heart. Even Elizabeth realized that something was wrong. She has been easy to cry following the discovery of a still Sid. I am not sure when Paige will be ready for a new friend, but she is already asking for one. Funny how that happens.
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