Meet Flounder!

On Saturday we cleaned and organized our garage. Very unexciting chore, but in the process we discovered our beta fish stuff that was last used five years ago when our last beta fish committed suicide by jumping out of the vase into David's tabletop zen rock garden, rolled around in the sand, and then flopped on our kitchen counter where I found him later that night. Delightful. Previous beta fish had been rescued from the kitchen sink drain (yes I stuck my hand down there!) and died several other mysterious deaths. If we hadn't of kept our dog and cat alive we may have thought twice about having children as we seemed to go through beta fish rather quickly!

We've been talking about setting up an aquarium for the kids recently and even have my Mom's old aquarium in the garage so we thought this would be a good introduction to having fish. Grace was very excited about picking out a fish to bring home so when we went into Salem Sunday afternoon for some shopping we stopped by Petco. We let Grace pick out the fish which is why we are now the proud owners of one gangly looking Beta Fish named Flounder. Flounder is red, which is as close to pink as Grace could find I think. We debated names for awhile, and while David and I threw out some perfectly good choices Grace decided that Flounder was the only name appropriate. So Flounder it is.

Flounder is now living on our hutch in the kitchen which is the best spot I could think of. It doesn't have direct sun, isn't immediately accessible to our cat, and the kids can easily stand on the step stool in the kitchen to look at him. We'll see how long this guy lasts.