Liam got a fish for his birthday. A betta. I was always a little worried about it because it wasn’t very active at all. Just about every day we had to tap the tank to make sure it was still breathing. Well, it died on Saturday. But I was so used to it being perfectly still in weird positions, I didn’t think anything of it. In fact, I actually showed it to my cousin and we laughed about the ridiculous position it was in. I didn’t realize it was dead until Sunday night when it was in the same position. I told Liam about it on Monday and we buried it outside. When I told him, he got a real sad look on his face and said, “But who’s gonna watch me when I’m sleep?” It was so sad. So I told him we’d go get another fish that night.

So we went to Wal-Mart, but we saw a 1-gallon aquarium kit was only $10. So we thought maybe we’d get that (as opposed to the fishbowl) and a couple of small fish instead of just one. The employee informed us that a tank has to be set up for at least 24 hours before you can introduce fish to it, though. So we got the aquarium and would go back the next day for fish.

Instead of going back to Wal-Mart, though, we went to Houma to Petsmart for a bigger selection. Some scraggly-haired, baggy-pantsed kid showed up to help us and I groaned. But let me tell you, that kid knew his stuff. He helped us pick out a couple of small fish that would live together nicely, a Mickey Mouse Platy and an X-Ray Tetra. We got a couple of Ghost Shrimp to help keep the tank clean. I’ll post a photo of the aquarium as soon as I take one.

We’ve tried our best to teach Liam manners. For example, saying “bless you” when someone sneezes.

Last night, Molly sneezed in his face. He said, “Eww, Sister blessed me!”

Twice recently, once last night about Target, and once last week about Rouses, Liam said he didn’t want to go to the store because of the smell.

“The smell of it smells bad,” he said.

Don’t ask me.

We thought Liam was stuttering when he would say ‘yester-yesterday,’ but then we realized he meant two days ago.

What’s more, if he’s talking about something that happened a long time ago, it was yester- yester- yester- yester- yester- yesterday. Or sometimes more yesters.

So today is Mother’s day, the day when you’re supposed to be extra nice to your mother and not embarrass her…

At the dinner table this afternoon, Liam and Meghan’s Aunt Amy were arguing about fault. Fault for what? No one knows. She told Liam it was his fault, and he denied it. After going back and forth for a minute, Amy decided to attach something to this blame with “It is your fault that your mom’s a mommy!” When Liam denied it again, she asked, “Then whose fault is it?”

He pointed straight at me. I can assure you, it was five kinds of funny.

So we’re at Meghan’s grandma’s house this weekend… Her grandparents have a black and white rat terrier named Lulu. Liam was playing with the dog with a little soccer ball, when he suddenly stopped and announced: “Hey, this matches Lulu!”