Meet Dorothy

Well, as you might have guessed, we've been slowly worn down lately with EB's daily heartache and tears at not having a pet of her own. Since we can't have a big animal in our current house, we decided to put off the inevitable adoption of a furry creature with the purchase of a fish.

Meet Dorothy.

 Eden Brooks was "super-duper excited" about getting a fish, and named her after Elmo's pet fish. It's amazing how much you can watch a fish and how excited EB got when she saw Dorothy eat food for the first time.

We also had no idea Lydia knew how to climb up into the dining room chairs until we left the room for a minute and came back to this ...
 

Guess she couldn't see Dorothy well enough from down below.

As EB said tonight, "Fish are easy. You just feed 'em and watch 'em."

Yes, yes. That was precisely the idea.

- ajb