Fishy Tale

Saturday was jam packed for us. I ran my booth at trade days with the excellent help of my cute boys and then went straight from there to our Elementary School's Fall Festival. This was my kids first experience at a fall festival and they had a fabulous time spending their tickets on the games, bounce houses, and cup cakes. The hightlight of the night had to be the fishbowl. An innocent little game where you tossed a ball into a fish bowl to get a prize. Much to their excitment, the prize turned out to be a live goldfish. They both won one (the judges were pretty lenient, I think worried about going home with fish themselves). I knew Carter would be ecstatic because he's wanted a fish for about three years. Seriously, every time we passed a pet store or even made a trip to walmart, he wanted to go look at the fish. The one that took me by suprise however, was Liam. I've never seen a two-year-old more excited. He wouldn't even let us help him carry that bag. I wish I had a picture of him with it. Alas, following the fall festival, we took a detour to walmart and bought a fish tank. I admit, I was pretty worried at first, but now I'm glad we did. They adore their fish. Carter has named his Freddy. Also, I was initially wondering if putting the tank in their room would keep them up at night, but it has seemed to have the opposite effect on Liam. Before, he was taking a half hour or more to settle down at night but, the past two evenings, he was out in 5 minutes. We love our little fish and hope they love their new home.