Drew and Jr. Iditarod musher Jeff at the kickoff for our homeschool Iditaread program a few weeks ago. Both boys picked a musher and we read over 1,100 pages to reach Nome before our mushers. It was a lot of fun to track our mushers and learn a ton about the Iditarod in the process.
Our first attempt at owning golfish has already come to an end! We acquired two little feeder goldfish a couple weeks ago at MOPS. They were used as our centerpieces and we gave them out afterwards. So we took two to try our hand at raising a few fish. So we named them Linus and Lucy from Charlie Brown. They were great and fine, but as the days wore on Lucy started to turn brown and Linus was just great. But one morning just 5 days after we brought them home, we found Linus floating at the top... We thought Lucy was gonna be a gone-er, not Linus! So we flushed Linus with the boys and I standing around the toilet bowl. As I carried Linus in a cup to the bathroom, the boys were running after me yelling, "We didn't say our last goodbyes!" So they said their goodbyes and that was that. I warned them, that Lucy looks sick and that she might die too.
A few minutes later, I found a sad Drew sitting at the bottom of the stairs. I said, "Are you sad about Linus?"
"Yeah.." he said in a sad tone, "Mom, I remember his first poo-poo." (They stood around forever fascinated by the pooping habits of Linus!)
It was SO hard not to laugh, but I said, "I miss Linus too, bud."
So a couple days later, it was Lucy's turn for the big plunge. But I promised them I would get them a Betta, which I hear are much easier to take care of... So that night I brought home a deep red Betta which we named Rerun. (In the newer Charlie Brown cartoons, Linus and Lucy's little brother's name is Rerun!)
We've already beat our record of 5 days with the other fish, so we're feeling pretty confident about our fish care abilities. Plus, my friend's two golfish from MOPS died already as well, so we don't feel so bad.
