New Pets

Sign that my kids desperately want a pet: They spent fifteen minutes coming up with names for the 20 tiny gel packs of turquoise Cascade dishwasher soap we bought because they thought they were cute. (Pacifica, Perry, Agent P, Cascade, Falls, Turko, Teal, Gray Bluey, Bluey, Ocean, Sea, Sky, Lake, Atlantis, Soapy, Soap, Dish, Wave, DW, and Turkey.)

I posted that on Facebook and a friend suggested we get pet plants. So we did just that.

We just got the cheapest plants Walmart had. Buddy wanted a palm tree. Little Guy wanted a cactus. We got their $2.50 look-a-likes. PS liked hers because the leaves are purple.

Little Guy's was named Darth Vader. It may have chanced to Storm Trooper. Buddy's is Clone Trooper and Princess Sparkley's is Amethyst. Here they are with their plants throughout the rest of the day. Little Guy took his all over the house with him as he played while the big kids finished up school work. It was pretty cute. PS insisted on reading a book to her plant.