Monday, September 13, 2010

My Town Monday: BABY VEILED CHAMELEONS!!!

I was going to post about the La Jolla Rough Water Swim for this week's My Town Monday post. I got the kids off to school, walked the dog, fed the chameleons and opened incubator #1 to check on the veiled chameleon eggs...

SURPRISE!! A baby veiled chameleon was walking, more like lurching, around the deli dish!!!

I opened incubator #2...

Three more baby veiled emerging from eggs! (I placed a penny in the dish to give you perspective. No, no, I don't leave money in with the eggs.)

I'm holding the first beautiful baby!

Here are 3 baby veiled siblings exploring a shoe box, making each other's acquaintance, waiting for me to finish preparing their cage.

I am dancing around the house with joy! Not, of course, when I'm holding one of the babies! I am sending picture texts to Child #2 (the owner of the chameleons). He's in school and shouldn't be receiving texts. But, hey Mr. Principal, this is the miracle of life, reptile style!

Current status:

-3 babies completely out of his/her respective egg
-1 baby still dragging egg around
-1 baby with only his/her head out
43 eggs still to hatch

Oh, I cannot stop singing and dancing. I am so excited!

Mr. Summy phoned to tell me not to get TOO excited, as in we're NOT keeping 48 chameleons. Oh, but he knows me well. ;)

Please check out the links to the other My Town Monday posts on the official My Town Monday blog.

11 comments:

  1. Awesome. My youngest is after me to buy him a Bearded Dragon. I'll show him these pics when i get home.

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  2. They're wonderful! A whole new adventure in lizard ownership. (This is the first crop of babies to hatch, right?)

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  3. P.S. One seems brighter green than the others. Does that mean anything, such as its sex?

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  4. You crack me up! All those disclamers... :)

    Quite a day in the Summy household--enjoy!

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  5. Congratulations!!!! They are so cute.

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  6. wow wow wow... so cute! i was just wondering after your last egg laying post if any had hatched. how fun to part of an amazing process.

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  7. Congratulations, Barrie!! All your hard work paid off! We had a hard time getting rid of the baby pets that we nursed along, too. But we never had 48 chameleon babies at one time.

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  8. Congratulations on your babies! They are cute!

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  9. Very nifty! But...what ARE you going to do with 48 chameleons?

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