March Madness

so March Madness has a different meaning at our house. March has been jam packed with birthday parties, spring break, spring carnivals and spring cleaning (0k, more on the hubby's part than mine for the cleaning but I keep kids corralled while he has been planting his garden). This weekend was full of spring carnivals at Monkey's school and Sissy's school.

The kids had a great time playing and stuffing themselves full of candy and other goodies but somehow we ended up with new pets out of the deal.

my older two both have lousy aim. In fact they're both instructed not to throw things because their aim is so off they often get that old Momizim"stop that before you put someones eye out." So when they asked if they could play the goldfish game at one carnival - you know where you toss a ping pong ball into a goldfish bowl and if you make it in, you win the goldfish- i thought nothing of it knowing that there was no chance either one of them would actually get the ball in the bowl. So you can imagine my surprise when not one but both of my children were winners of goldfish.

now if I remember correctly, when you do this at county fairs and larger carnivals, you actually win the goldfish bowl with the fish. However at the school carnival, you win a goldfish in a ziplock. Sissy has named her fish princess something or another and Brother has named his Sir Andrew Swims-a-lot. I lovingly named them Walmart and Petsmart because that's where we ended up having to go to find the fish homes and food. Thinking that these critters weren't going to live very long, I wasn't inclined to spend the $18.00 for a fish tank or any accessories for the fish. We're already down to one fish this afternoon as Petsmart was found floating upside down this morning. We should have known he wasn't destined to live long when we put him in the bowl out of his ziplock and one fin was missing......so Sissy does routine checks on her fish and announces about once an hour that her fish is still alive......but sadly we have to have a five gun salute to Sir Andrew Swims-a-lot and I'm still trying to figure out if I want to deal with the hassle of replacing him.......