Well, I have good news & bad news. We'll start with the bad news to get them out of the way.
Sweet little Nemo has passed on to that Great Pond in the Sky. He got some kind of fish fungus and was sick for a day before he died. (See, this is why I don't like having small, fragile pets. They always end up dying.) Lily was a little sad about it so we decided to read "Our Birdie Funeral" from the LWG to cheer her up. Of course I should've known that reading it would spark questions such as "Mom, can we please have a fish burial?" (Ugh!) And then "It says in the story that when we die we become dust. After we bury the fish, can we come check on it every day to see if it's become dust?" (Gross!!)
After explaining that we most definitely would NOT be checking on the fish every day after burying it and comforting Benny who burst into tears at the thought of dying & becoming dust, we decided that we would flush the fishy down the toilet so he could have a 'watery grave'. (Yes, I was too disgusted to put the fungus fish in a leaf & bury it so I convinced them that Nemo would much rather be 'buried' in the Ocean.)
No 'funeral' is complete without some singing, so we gathered around the toilet and sang "Bye, Bye Fishy, Hello Heaven". Yeah... it was a bit awkward, but Lily loved it!
Anyway, Dad decided that we needed more pets as he hadn't gotten to pick one yet soooo... (here come the good news)... he bought 2 quail! We had quail at our previous house but they died (of course) so we're good & ready for some new ones. There's a male and a female and Ben decided they should be named Alvin & Adina (after their friends at our previous Home) but I doubt those names will stick; we'll see. Chris' reasoning in bringing them Home is that if they don't do well as pets, they'll be great for dinner, heh!
We've had them for a few nights & they have this shrill call that's keeping Chris up at night & scaring Ben so much that he doesn't want to use the bathroom on his own, so we might have to return them to the pet store. Hopefully Ben will get used to it & things will be fine. Here are some pics of the female, the male was hiding somewhere:
Lily is such a friendly little girl. She's very outgoing and loves to talk to people (even if they only speak Spanish & she can't understand what they're saying).
