Michael's First Pet!

Michael did a great job with potty training. He learned how to go "pee-pee" pretty quickly but he had trouble making it to the potty on time when he needed to go "poo-poo". He was always just a little late and would get skid marks in his underwear and then the rest in the potty. So we told him that when he consistently made it to the potty with no accidents that he could go pick out his very first fishy. We thought it would be a good first pet. Easy to take care of and not much clean up. Seemed to be perfect for learning responsibility for a 3 year old. He picked out the bowl, the rocks, the little tree, and the fish. He picked a beautiful beta fish. Stunning blue. He was so excited! He went with daddy and got everything and then we all put it together as a family. Michael had done a wonderful job with remembering to feed his fishy twice a day and cleaning his bowl once a week. He is so cute about it too. He named him "Chemical Fishy".....we're not sure why. haha. He even reads him a bed time story. We're looking forward to the day when we can have a puppy but for not we're enjoy fishy as a new edition to our family. :-)