Precious

Precious is Katherine and Sarah's latest...plaything. He's a Beta fish I purchased for them about a week ago. I have to point out that Katherine named him. Only she would find "Precious" to be an appropriate name for a male fish. :)

Well...the other day, Katherine took it upon herself to push a chair over to the countertop where he sits and stick her finger in the small opening on the top of his tank. Needless to say, I came in at just the right time and sharply said, "What are you doing?!?"

Before I could even take another step, her finger was out of the tank, she was off the chair and half-way to her bedroom! I walked in behind her and asked her again, "What were you doing young lady?"

She replied with, "Oh mom, I wasn't doing nothing. It was Sarah." (Sarah happened to be sitting on the floor putting a shoe on the wrong foot with one hand and sucking on a finger on the other....) I raised my eyebrows at her, knowing full and well she was fibbing. She must have known that and continued, "Don't worry mom. I won't kill him. I just needed to pet him."

Oye! We need to find a new place for Precious to sit....