It's a big month in our house. Anna's birthday, Anders birthday, my sister's birthday, and 2 other family members birthdays, and a slew of close friends also born in this same month. It's such a packed 28 days. Oh, right, and then there is the wonderful Valentine's Day bonus!
At our house we are in the midst of cutting wooden dowels and painting magician wands. I bought 6 yards of black shiny fabric at the store today to make magician's capes, and Anna and I have found a 17 year old high school student who can do magic tricks who is willing to come and entertain five year olds. And I love all of it. You might think I am crazy, but the artist/mom/party planner in me gets such a kick out of bringing it all together. I might not always feel this way, nor have this much energy about birthdays, but I currently do, so I am going with it. Can you guess that the theme of Anders birthday party is magic. It was his choice and quite honestly, I am not even sure how he got fixed on it - but he did and so we are off and running.
His birthday was actually on Friday. It was simple and fun and celebrated by the four of us and Anders' Mor Mor. He got a 10 gallon fish tank from her and it's been thrilling for him. We are all learning about how to have fish and keep them alive. The first day he got 2 dalmation mollies and they died by the morning. We just replaced them with a guppie and another kind of fish recommended by the pet store, but that one looks as if it is also about to take a trip down the toilet as well. Keeping fish is more complicated than it appears and cleary we do not understand yet what factors are problematic. We thought it was the water temperature but that seems under control, so now we are on to problemsolving session number two. Anders is so happy about it all, even though his first two fish didn't make it. On the way home from the pet store the second time, Anders said "Mom, I think I am going to name these two fish before they die. I didn't name the other ones." I am so interested in watching his involvement and response to this experience. We haven't yet had any pets so the death aspect of life is new in our home. It seems with fish there isn't a lot of emotional attachment - scooping them in the net and flushing them down the toilet was just as much fun as choosing them at the pet store. But this will be continued....I am sure there will be much more to report on this as time passes. And if you only have a fish for less than 24 ours, you haven't had much opportunity to build a relationship. With names it might be different. Bumble (the guppie) is swimming up a storm right now, and whiskers (the other fish) is still in the same spot it was a few hours ago. Stay tuned.
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