Alli Kat

This is Laura trying to prove she can step on herself.

blinky is the orange platy, poke is the poke-a-dotted puffer, if you look closely you can see kunkun behind pokes tail, and of course snail is easily recognizable.



To the right is blublu, our algea eater.

Fishtank

Here is a picture of Laura and her fishtank. Unfortunately Pom has passed away, but the other fish are doing well and we've had several additions to our tank. Poke, who is a puffer fish, and Snail, who of course is a snail. There are also baby platies hiding in the gravel at the bottom, and I kinda think kunkun may be getting ready to reproduce again...we shall see. The baby fish excite Laura to no end, she's seen them several times and keeps waiting for them to "pop out" of the rocks. ("pop out" was also the term she used for alli being born, so I don't know if she's equating the two or if it's just because the fish move so quickly in and out of the rocks).

picture emails

Thank you to all who are sending pictures to Laura in her email (lauraonzelle@gmail.com) We haven't been good about sending back individual replies, but she is enjoying getting them!

Imaginary friend going home

So last night I was walking around with Laura trying to get her to go to sleep when she says to me, I think I'm really mad. I ask her why, and she replies, "because I don't want Annie to leave". (Annie being an imaginary friend we've had around here lately.) So I say, "well it's ok if Annie spends the night...she can stay." To which Laura says, "no, she has to go, she has work to do" At which point Laura again gets upset b/c she wants Annie to stay. Eventually after a few minutes of both Chris and I trying to reason with a 3 year olds imagination we worked it out that Annie should indeed go home for the night, but that she (or if she was still busy a different imaginary friend) could come back over tomorrow.

Umbilical Cord

Alli lost her umbilical cord this morning! She now has an honest to goodness belly button and will soon be starting to use cloth diapers.

Rude Awakening

This morning Laura woke up before I did...she then snuck up to me and yelled "Boo", successfully scaring me awake.

New Fish

So our fish Bubbles finally died (after a month of upside down swimming). Instead of just quietly replacing him as was our original intention we bit the bullet and told Laura her fish died. She took it in stride as she takes everything, and then got excited when we told her we would be getting new fish. We now have Blinky, Kun Kun, Pom, and BluBlu, 3 platies and an algae eater. They have lived with us 2 days and seem to be doing well so far.