R.I.P. Bob

On Friday night Andy and I were sitting in the living room discussing how big our fish were getting, and how surprised we were that they had been alive for THREE WHOLE WEEKS, and I realized that I hadn't posted a blog about them yet, so I grabbed my camera and took some photos. We got these fish for Kylee on the day Andy graduated. She named them "Bob", and "Other Bob". For three weeks we've fed them, cared for them, and watched them grow bigger. Amazing! Then, last night, I went to feed them, and I said to Andy, "Do fish sleep?" Bob (white tummy, top of photo) wasn't moving when I tapped the tank, and Other Bob, (orange and black, bottom of photo), was swimming weird. I immediately tried to think what had gone wrong, and realized...Kid fed them too much. On Friday night, she had accidentally dumped about 1/4 of the bottle of food into the tank. Andy cleaned out as much as he could...but we should have cleaned the water. By this morning, Bob was a goner. Andy flushed him down the toilet, and told Kylee he was gone to live in heaven with Jesus. She said, "No, mommy. Him in the white toilet." I said, "Oh. Yeah, well, after he went in the toilet, he went to see Jesus in heaven." We then told her that Other Bob, who was hanging on for dear life, was really sick. I looked up everything I could find online, and we tried it all. Sprinkle some salt in a bowl of water and put him in there for a few minutes; feed him a de-shelled pea; don't feed him anymore flakes...etc. It doesn't look good. As of now, he's still alive, but barely. Kylee keeps asking him, "Other Bob, you wanna go in the white toilet and see heaven?" At least she's too young to cry over dead fish. R.I.P. Bob! I think Other Bob might join you by morning! Poor little guys.

Sleeping

Lately Kylee has been having a bit of a hard time when it comes to going to bed. I don't know if it's because it's too light outside, or what. We can hear her in there playing, singing, reading books, and she even comes and pokes her hands under the door and says, "Mommy! My hand under the door!" Finally, when we don't hear anymore noises, we go check on her. Several times we've found her like this. After we unwrap her blankie from her head, she is dripping sweat and is red as a tomato. Weird kid!! Once we take it off, though, she doesn't put it back on, so that's good! She's not sleeping all night that way!

Kylee's Photo Shoot

Yesterday I was flipping through the photos on my camera, and Kylee said, "Mommy! Take a picture of me!" And then she wanted another....

...and another...

...and another...

...and another...

I never could get her to just smile regular. She kept making weird faces. I guess she thinks that's what photo shoots are all about!!

Bye Bye Elder Taylor!!

Kylee's boyfriend left on his mission this week, but the morning he left for the MTC, we made sure to take a picture for her to remember him by. Elder Taylor is now off to serve in the Argentina, Resistencia Mission.

Tulip Festival

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Tulip Festival with Andy's family. I took the opportunity to take some photos of Kid with the flowers. She wouldn't smile regular though.

This was favorite, but it's kind of blurry! Darn it!

She's such a cheese ball! Everytime I asked her to sit somewhere, she would lay down and pose.

This is my new-favorite, because it's cute AND non-blurry.

And here we see why Kid will never smile regular. She takes after her daddy.