New Family Pet!

Getting the "real" fish!

Gift #2---fake fish!

Goldfish---her face cracks me up!

alright mom--let me open these gifts!

Fish party! She just wanted cupcakes this year--hooray for me...definitely easier than last year's castle cake!

For Abby's birthday on Friday she got a fish (to go in her fish room) She had asked Poppa about 4 months ago for one and ever since she was just certain that was what she was gonna get! Well she was right but Maw Maw and Poppa decided since she was SO certain that they would play a few pranks on her for fun!
They brought 3 gifts---one bag had Goldfish in them (the ones you eat) and as you can see she was trying to be happy about that but her face gave away her displeasure:) -she did say thank you though--which made us very proud!
She then opened another gift which was like a lava lamp but it has water and fake fish in it and lights up. Well this time I think she was convinced these were the only fish she was gonna get--she watched Poppa fill it with water and you could just see the confusion in her eyes--it was great! (she really loves this lamp though--at night she keeps it on for a night light!)
Well after all the anguish Poppa FINALLY pulled out the "real" fish tank and oh was she thrilled!
Right away wanted to feed them and put them in her new room! Greg took care of putting all her new gifts into her room before the big reveal and the room looked perfect! (read blog that follows about what Greg and I did for her birthday)
After we had the family over for cake and gifts Abby had her friend Hailey spend the night in her new room. I have tons of pictures of that but I will have to blog about that later--so stay tuned to hear about our slumber party!

*on a sad side note* -Saturday morning we woke-up to one dead fish:( She got 3 small goldfish and one of them was stuck to the side of the filter. We had a little talk with Abby about the lifespan of goldfish and she was ok about it. She told me later- "welp at least I got 2 more!" -what a great attitude--she's my half-full kinda girl:)
Let's hope these fish live to a ripe old age of...... 1 month:) - hey that's the longest my fish ever lived!