Minky & Me

Coco was just singing a little song to her baby boy doll, Buddy (named after Buzz Lightyear, whose name she insists is Buddy). This song was sung right after we finished reading the Dr. Seuss story Gertrude McFuzz. It went like this:

I will name you Lala Lee Lou…La La Lee Lou and your middle name will be Buddy and your last name will be Rainbow…..la la la la.

Ironically, after I wrote the post yesterday about our aquatic miracle, I noticed during my nightly sitting-in-the-dark-staring-at-the-fish-tank visit that there were only two babies swimming around. This was odd because the three fish always swimming together.

A half an hour later, Layr and I were trading stories of the day. He casually mentioned vacuuming the tank in the morning. Vacuuming requires a plastic tube thing and a bucket to hold the water you siphon out. Evidently, Layr had some trouble with this task because Coco was hopping all around, distracting him. She even knocked the hose out of the bucket and water went all over the floor.

Once I heard this, I knew the fish had accidently been sucked out of the tank. I berated Layr for killing my favorite baby…the one that is this beautiful orangey red color. As I did this, he searched the floor for an orange corpse.

This morning I wondered if Coco would notice someone missing and how we’d break the news to her.

Tonight, as we fed the fish, I looked sadly into the tank. I watched the two tiny fish swimming……and then…wait…there was a third! It wasn’t a weird reflection in the tank, as I first thought. It was my fish! My fish zipping around excitedly trying to eat pieces of food that were double its size.

We’ve had a second aquatic miracle or someone played a very elaborate April Fools joke on me.