Our new pets

Saturday morning we went to Camden's Fall Festival for his school.

(I remember clearly all the fun we had at Oran K Gragson as kids)...

There were the typical... cake walk, face painting, ring toss, fishing pond and the one we never played (or won) at our school carnivals....

This one had the longest line... the most kids..

Ping pong fish.. bounce a ball into the fish bowl.. and the fish was yours...

We managed to avoid the game for a while. After using all of our tickets but 7.. we managed to grab a ticket from the Williams... we had the necessary amount.. 8 tickets...

we stood in line for atleast 15 minutes. Each kid would get 3 tries... bounce the ball on the ground first and stand behind the white line were the rules.

A cute little girl in front of us dressed as Dorthy tried, and the tears were running down her face even before her balls were all used up..

I had warned the kids that if they didn't win.. no big deal.. we still had fun..

It was Case's turn... First ball.. right in...

Then my thoughts were.. oh no case won.. and camden is going to freak out if he doesnt..

Camden's turn... first ball.... no luck..

second ball.. right in...

my luck.. 2 goldfish in ziploc baggies..

a dad on the sidelines said.. all those kids have had no luck and your kids get it right away.. he asked camden what he was going to name it.. the dad suggested Bait... Bait it was..

Case chose Caillou..

would they make it home alive?where would i put them?

somehow they made it home.. called dad and sent him a picture to tell him our good fortune.. transfered them to a clear glass bowl.. ( that was a vase, but it works)

We bought the necessary fish food, fed and changed the water

Today while Camden was at school, one was at the bottom lifeless..

I broke the news to Case.. we spooned him out and walked to the toilet..

Case was actually excited to flush?

Should I be concerned? He is sensitive.. maybe just not to orange goldfish?

So since we will never have dogs or cats.. fish might be our pet of choice.