Okay, so the question is, am a a great mom for allowing my girls to handle live fish and "fallen asleep" fish all day long or does that make me a horrible mom? I guess it depends on your perspective. :) Yesterday after the morning rains we were out working in the yard and Clay looked over at the spillway and found 12 fish that were stranded and trying to swim back upstream to the pond. Had we let them be, nature's course would have been to sacrifice them as an easy meal for the blue heron that is never far away... We saved them... and gave them to Avery and Landry instead.
These fish were the most pampered, well-fed, and cared for fish you have ever met. Avery spent every waking moment of the rest of her day caring for her new baby pets. She fed them earthworms and grubworms, housed them, moved them, hugged them and loved on them. Here she is with the "momma" and a "baby".
Here's her favorite. All the assorted buckets below served as "houses". She moved the fish constantly from one bucket to another so they could all play with each other. Landry definitely got in on the action and Nolan even stopped by to watch the fun.
Roselyn came over for a while that evening to show Avery her find of the day, a good-sized red-earred slider. If you look close you can see Avery is trying to get the turtle to eat one of the fish that "fell asleep".
Here they are talking about their strategy for getting the turtle to come out of its shell. Roselyn's former strategy of reaching in with her finger and poking it really hard had not been successful and resulted in a small chunk of skin being bitten off her finger.
The girls were so distracted all day by the fish and turtle that Clay and I got tons of work done in the yard. I love spring!
3 comments:
My vote is GREAT MOM!! What a priceless day.
You are a super FUN mom!!! Your pictures are great. I meant to tell you that on the pictures you took of the rainboots in the puddle. The splashing around looked like so much fun. I know if my kids saw your blog, they would probably beg to move in with you!
That's funny. We went fishing with our boys the other day when we were in Direct. We kept all our fish that we caught (the boys couldn't part with them!) Noah and his two cousins could not leave the poor fish alone. They kept trying to force minnows in their mouths. Ramey kept saying--these poor fish didn't know they were going to be tortured after being caught. :) LOVE fishing with kids!
Still praying for you and your family Maurine.
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