The night before Aiden's birthday party (which we had this past Friday, the 3rd), Brian and I bought each boy a fish as a special surprise. Logan has wanted a fish since his 3rd birthday (which was fish-themed!) and Aiden has been talking about having one lately as well. I bought three "bowls" and rocks at the craft store then met Brian at PetSmart to pick out three Betta fish. We picked out a green one, a blue one and a red one. (well....the truth is that the green one actually used to live at Memaw and Grandpa's house....but they were sort of tired of taking care of him...so...um....don't tell Logan...)

The really pretty Betta fish are the males of the species and you can't put more than one of them in a bowl or they'll duke it out and fight (or so I've been told). So....we have three new boys for the house: Jaws (Logan's...name influenced by daddy!), Balloonie (Aiden's) and Bish (the way that Brady said "fish" when he first saw his bowl!)

"The boys," as Logan and I have been calling them, were waiting for THE boys on the kitchen table Friday morning. I can safely say that they were a hit all around!!


Brady was SO excited about his fish. He wanted the bowl right next to him during breakfast and kept kissing it. He was good about not putting his fingers in the water too; he would just wave and say, "hi," over and over again. When I took the bowl away, he pitched a fit, pointed at it and yelled "wa-wa wa-wa!!"
After the fish, we let Aiden open a few family presents. Logan gave him a new Wii game, Mommy & Daddy gave him hungry-hungry hippos and he got a really cool magnegtic dress-up guy (sort of like a paper doll concept, but made of wood and for a boy!) from GG and GG-pa.
Here, Logan plays with GG and GGpa's gift, Joey.
Of course I took a TON of pictures this past weekend with Aiden's birthday party and the Fourth of July. More posts to follow soon!