New Pets!

Recently, Zachary's 3rd fish, Elliott passed away.  "Elliott the Fish" lived 2.5 years at our house and brought Zachary much joy. I'm amazed he lived that long.  It's funny because when it died Zachary was sad, but not super sad. Not like when the other 2 fish passed away. I guess it's just a sign that he's growing up.  About a week after the fish passed away, we took Z to the store to get a new fish.  He picked out a new fish, Grrrr.  When we got it home we realized his tank had a leak. So we went to the store to get a new one with some Christmas money. It was less expensive to buy the full kit (light, rocks, tank, pump, filter, food, water purifier, etc) than it was just to buy the tank so we got a new one.  The funny thing was Will loved it more than Zach.  After about a week we decided that Will needed his own fish and his own tank.  He had a gift card to a big chain store from his Uncle Jeff & Aunt Kathy from his birthday and Christmas and decided this was the perfect thing to spend those gift cards on.  Will LOVES his fish tank and his fish Happy.  

The funny thing about these pictures is that Will is about the exact same age when my cousin Abbey gave Zachary her fish & tank in 2008.  What is even more ironic is Will is wearing Zachary's old footie pjs in the picture that Zach wore when he got his first fish.  Kevin couldn't believe I could remember stuff like that but I do.  I had to pull out the old blog book to prove it.  Click here to see Zachary with his first fish.

Will showing you HAPPY the beta fish!

 He is blowing Happy a kiss!

 This is what Will does about 30 minutes of the day. If you come and visit our house he will take you by the hand and take you back to his room to introduce you to his fish. He's so proud.

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of Z's new fish "Grr" and his new tank.  Z is not that into him however if he didn't have a tank or fish he would be sad.