Baby Chipmunk...awwww

So last night my husband yells from outside "cristy...come here...quick"...and tone he saves for these moments usually means..."yikes...bring your camera".  In the past this tone has been saved for snakes...scorpions or anything else creepy and crawly that may be located somewhere around our home.

Last night...it was this little dude that he had just pulled out of the pool.

He was barely hanging on.

We had no idea what to do.

Steve blew air into his nose.  

His little tummy was going up and down...slowly.  

He was not moving.

Then he started making the craziest noises.

Calling his mum I think.

So sad.

A couple minutes later he lifted his head.

Then plopped back down.

Steve covered him with a blanket and put a basket over him to protect him from some hungry monster.

The girls kept wanting to check on him all night.  I was so scared what they might find.

This morning we went to look and he had burrowed himself a little tunnel in some leaves.

This afternoon I went out again and he was lying motionless on his side.
I started to cry.

I stroked his tiny little head.

He JUMPED up and started to walk around.

It was crazy.

We put him in a box and took him over to a wash where there were other chipmunks and he jumped out...ran up some boulders and he is now back home with his fellow bushy tails.

Is that not the cutest thing ever!