Spotty

Nearly a year ago, Spotty and Goldie joined our family after several successful winning at the "throw the ping pong ball into the fish bowl" game at the Cabarrus County fair.

Knowing that fish won at these types of fairs typically don't last too long we spent lots of time preparing the kids that the fish probably wouldn't live more than a few days, weeks if they were lucky. Well we almost made it to the 1 year mark--- until Tuesday night when we had to say goodbye to Spotty. Spotty has had several close calls over this past year. It was not unusual to find him floating upside down in the tank, struggling to right himself again. Or other times finding him swimming on his side. Google to the rescue and we were able to learn that peas are the magical food for fancy goldfish. After a few days he would be back to normal. Not so this week. I felt like I had stepped into a Cosby show episode as we had our goodbye ceremony before sending Spotty on to fish heaven.

Katelyn was pretty upset about losing her fish, so we decided to take her to the pet store to get a new fish. As we were getting ready to go Lindsay asks if she can flush Goldie too? Katelyn was mortified that Lindsay was so willing to get rid of Goldie -- Lindsay just wanted the opportunity to pick out a new fish. At the pet store Lindsay looks at me with a little gleam in her eye and says, "Mommy, I don't think my fish is swimming anymore we better get a new one." Two very different children I have!

Somehow we managed to come home from the pet store with 2 new fish. Meet the Goldie's new roommates....Sunkist and Elmo :)