Today we seem to have had our very first casualty that we are going to have to disguise from our little man that thinks he is the center of the universe. You see, we have a 6 gallon fish tank in his room and we look at it every morning, nap and bedtime. A few weeks ago we added 2 snails to the mix and ever since, every morning, afternoon and night he throws his arms up at you, looks like he is asking for the very last thing he will ever ask and yells out ‘nays’ over and over. If you don’t pick him up the asking becomes a whine and the word gets dragged on as ‘nayeees’ and his arms start whipping up and up and up.
A few days ago snail number one had passed onto the next world and it seems like the other was just too lonely to stick with fish and followed his hard shelled friend. We noticed this at bedtime and decided that instead of freaking the kid out for life that his beloved nays was scooped and thrown in the garbage (too big for the toilet) we will get it after I bring him down for breakfast in the morning. Plus, I don’t want to deal with him running to the bathroom garbage can in search of his friend every time we are upstairs.
The scary thing is that we know this kid will look for his little slimy friends in the tank and we think that we will have to replace them. How sad. We are turning into our parents that ran out and got us what they thought were identical fish to the late friends we so loved. Well at least we know that if there is some form of a snail in there he will be happy. He isn’t at that age where he will miss the ones that were there.
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