My Seussical Life for 2004 October 27

I pulled a wagon full of boys--Atticus, Samuel, and Nicholai--to the pet store this morning (Nicholai comes twice a week for a few hours so his artist mommy can work on her projects). We arrived at feeding time, so we saw tortises munching their lettuce, a Burmese Python sleeping with a fat round-of-something in his belly, lizzards eating crickets, and Oscar fish messily gobbling goldfish.

We've had an empty Beta fish vase since this summer. Our first Beta, "Little Fish Big Fish," died under the care of friends while we were on vacation in August. Today was the day to chose a new one. Atticus inspected about every Beta in the tanks at Pet World. Most of them were red. He finally came to a blue one, though, so we brought him home. I asked Atticus what name he wanted for the fish, and he chose "Batman Fish," or "Blue Batman." I'm not sure which name will stick permanently. Maybe he will keep both names. Either way, I hope Batman Fish will stay around longer than Little Fish Big Fish.