Poor Fishy Two

Some of you may know that Kassi has had two pet goldfish for over a month now. Every morning she gets up and tells me we need to feed her fish. She does this every day when we get home from work also. She also counts them for us and tells everyone she has two fish. Well today when we got home from work we had a floater. I knew the day would come that we would have to replace the fish, fortunately she was not home and was spending the night with grandma and grandpa so Wes and I ran to Walmart really quick and picked out a fish that looked just like the one that was in her tank. While we were standing there explaining to the guy helping us that we really needed an all orange fish I realized we were becoming the parents who try to hide or replace the missing pet before the child knows anything has happened.



Okay so she is only 1.5, but I know that little girl looks forward to seeing her fish everyday and I can only hope that she will not realize the new fish has black fins and is not all orange like the other one was. I am not sure what the man heard when I said as along as he is all orange I do not care, why I didn't look closer at the fish before we got out to the car I am not sure either. So now here I am thinking I really hope she doesn't realize this fish has black fins and the fish that was in there before she went to grandma and grandpas did not. This seems so silly to be worrying about, but I can now see why parents do these silly things we want nothing more than to protect our children.



So there are once again two fish in Kassi's tank. Now when she gets home tomorrow and wants to feed and count her fish she will still be able to count two fish. I am just very glad this happened when she was not here and I did not have to try and reason with a 1.5 year old on why I was putting fishy in the toilet and flushing!