I'm THAT Mommy - the one who waits until her husband is out of town and then brings a pet into the family! Kellen has been interested in having a pet for a while, and he's been asking for a fish. His preschool class recently adopted a pair of hermit crabs and he is so proud of them! He was the pet helper in his class last week and he always gives me an update on how the crabs are doing when he gets home from school. So while Geof is away, I've been finding things to occupy our evenings and heading to the pet store seemed like the perfect Monday night activity. So welcome Tommy, our red male betta fish.
Kellen and Addie picked out his bowl, gravel and plant and waited very patiently until his water was ready today so we could put him in his new home. Addie likes to run by and say "I love you, Tommy." They think it's pretty funny that he just eats two tiny food pellets a day, and I think Addie wants to find opportunity to scoop him up with her net... I think the net will have to live in a special hiding place. Ellary likes to watch him swim around. She shrieks and jumps when he moves. :)
The clerk at the pet store laughed as we were heading out with our cart full of fish paraphernalia - Addie called out, "MOM? Can we get a dog?" And in the car on the way home Kellen announced that he wants to give haircuts at the pet store when he grows up. I told him he might want to rethink dog grooming as it would be a very smelly, hairy job. But not to worry, there are to be no dogs in our future.
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harrison will be quite interested to hear that your kids now have a fish. it's all he's been talking about for a few weeks now...he wants a Nemo fish which i hear must live in a salt water tank. he always picks the most difficult things to want!
i was also asking him about singing one day and that i hoped he would use his voice to sing at church as he gets older and he said yes, but he would really like to work in a pet shop when he grows up. he and kellen seem to have similar ambitions! :)
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