Sophia has wanted a fish for a while and Eric promised one to her as soon as she could prove she was a big girl and could stop having accidents at school. Well she met her mini goal on Monday and Eric texted me "no accidents we are off to Petco". I called on the way home from my appointment and talked to Phia, she was so excited and was talking non stop about her fishies....yes plural, Eric bought two. They were still getting everything together when I got home and of course I had to snap some pictures, this is huge people. The tank was all setup in Phia's room when she went to bed and she said sweetly night, night fishies. Eric went in later to check on them and left the lid up. I commented that the lid should be closed no? He said no it was fine and didn't want to wake the girl. So off to bed we went with two cute little fishies just swimming away.
This morning we did the usual routine we do every weekday morning. Open Sophia's room, she wakes up on her own and stumbles sleepily into our room and hangs out in our bed for a while. I went into phia's room to get her outfit and shoes and noticed then that the fishies were gone. I was looking all over the tank thinking I am just blind and then start to think the pump sucked them in or the fish were really dumb and swimmed into the pump. Ok maybe I am the dumb one to think this but hey we have never been fish people. Last time I had fish was in College that we took home form a rush day and my roommate and i named them Luke and Elizabeth, yes from General Hospital. :) Let me just say we were in college so tending to the needs of a fish was not high on the priority list. Anyways back to the current fishies. I called Eric in and told him the fish were gone. He looked at me with his you are so crazy face and then realized I was right the fish were indeed gone. We looked on the dresser and then realized they might be behind the dresser. I wish I had a picture of Eric's face when he looked under the dresser. He kept saying I didn't know they could jump out. I blurted out "Dude, Finding Nemo". He couldn't help but bust out laughing. The rest of the morning we were on damage control to keep S out of her room. It worked and we just kept saying over and over they were sleeping and we would feed them later. Eric rushed home from work to day and now the new fishies are safe and sound in the tank...with the lid CLOSED.
Introducing Dora and Boots #2. Don't ask which one is which because it changes daily.
Day 1 in the life of Dora and Boots #1
Day 1 in the life of Dora and Boots #2
