Ever since we told Ben that he was a crab (cancer) he's been fascinated by them. Today he got a special surprise; a friend brought him 2 crabs! He was so happy when he saw them that he couldn't stop jumping up and down. He was so excited!
I asked him what he was going to name them and without even stopping to think about it he replied: "One will be Justin and the other will be Alex!" Just like his baby brother.
Tonight he kept running out of our parent time activity to check on his crabs. It's so cute! I followed him once to see what he was doing and I saw him shaking their little aquarium. When I asked him why he was doing that he said: "I need to shake it to make sure they're still alive!" Great reasoning!
I don't know the first thing about taking care of crabs (apparently they eat turtle food which is good for us as the kids have turtles so it'll be cheaper to buy them all the same thing) so we'll have to do some research so we can care for them properly.
Speaking of pets, a while ago Tory bought Lily a cute little Beta fish. Thank you Tory! I love the fact that they're so easy to care for.
Lily named her fish Nemo, of course. He's a feisty little guy! The other day we hadn't cleaned his bowl in a while and he must've gotten pretty fed up with the dirty water, as he jumped straight out of his bowl and into my make-up bag. Chris and Lily were all excited trying to catch him and put him back in his bowl. After Chris's professional CPR treatment he was back to normal.
Now we just have to bring the turtles down from the other house and our pet collection will be complete!
You're crazy!!! how can you have so many animals?
ReplyDeleteNotice that a friend bought Lily her pet and another friend brought Benny his...yeah, I didn't have much say in the matter. I think it's nice for the kids though, and we're lucky in that so far the pets we have just stay in their aquariums. Though some people in the Home have threatened to put the crabs in my bed one night as a nasty prank.
ReplyDeletesounds like so much fun. I want a fish and turtle too, although I don't know how I feel about the Crabs. I also really want to get a little dog. Julie loves dogs so much.
ReplyDeleteLily is looking so pretty by the way. She looks so grown up. Give her and Benny a big kiss from their favorite Auntie...ohh and little Justin too, although he doesn't know me yet, he will learn to love me :)
miss you all
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