The newest member of the family....Dribble the fish

Katelyn is now the proud and responsible owner of her friendly Betta fish named Dribble.  I know it's is hard to believe that the day has come that the Kotter family would have a pet of any kind.  It all started out so innocently, with the girls deciding that they no longer wanted to share a bedroom.  We began to move Aubrey out of Katelyn's room and then Katelyn realized just how lonely she might be without Aubrey.  She asked for a dog... that wasn't going to happen (obviously) so her next idea was a fish.  I think she just happened to ask on the right day because Mom and Dad were feeling very empathic to her loneliness and said we could go and look at the fish to do some pricing of the cost of a fish.  You can see from the picture what that turned into, yes the newest member of the family, Dribble.

The winter continues even into the early March.  The kids had a blast making this snowman with their dad on Saturday.  Unfortunately the snowman melted very quickly.  It was a puddle of slush by Sunday.  Andrew has been very upset about his snowman and continues to ask Dave and I to fix it, over and over again.  We often sing the primary song to him, "Once their was a snowman" at night before he goes to bed.  We tried to tell him the snowman melted small, small, small.  He seemed to comprehend what we are saying until he saw the puddle of mush and started all over with, "fix snowman".  Just another thing to torment his mind with the snow!