Early Birthday Presents

This post is also very behind schedule but better late then never haha. I have written before about how my car was getting on my nerves and finally around the middle of January I had enough. Since my birthday is in March Chantz decided that two months wasn't that big of a deal:) So we went out and got me a new SUV instead of my two door car that was a pain in the butt putting Dalton back there. I had previously wanted a Ford Edge but when I saw in the Explorer I was in love. It was more roomy than the edge and had a third row of seats which I know will come in handy since everyone always wants to take one car. I also liked that it has a towing hitch on it unlike the Edge did just in case I want to pull something. All in all it was the perfect match for me and I am so thankful that I finally have a vehicle that is off the ground and very spacious on the inside. Thank you Chantz for the perfect birthday present:) Dalton was WONDERFUL in the dealership even though it was WAY past his bedtime. He kept saying "big tuck" and "dive" he would run over to it and try to pretend he was driving it. He now knows how to tell the difference between "car" and "tuck" and "big tuck". All trucks he calls tuck and all cars he will call car and then SUVs or 18 wheelers or RVs he calls all of those big tucks. He points at all of the vehicles in all of the driveways everymorning and afternoon and goes down the line telling me what they all are:)

On another note, Dalton's birthday is not to far away either. He will be two in March and for some reason when we were at Walmart and Dalton was asking for "fishy" (meaning gold fish), Chantz thought he wanted an actual fish. We decided we would get him a little gold fish globe and some 20 cent goldfish to go in there that way if they died it was no big deal. We thought since he was about to be 2 this would be a neat "early birthday present" and would give him something he could look at and watch in his room. Chantz wanted to get him a beta fish and when I saw the price was 4.00 I was like "oh no that's too much money for a fish". Well the gold fish there didn't look to healthy so we went and bought the globe and decided we would go to fish r us which is right by our house and get him some decent looking gold fish.
Well once we got there, there were SO many fish to choose from. I kept asking Dalton do you like this one or this one or this one and he just kept saying "fishie fishie fishie" and "yeah" to all of them.

He finally decided on one that I really wanted him to have too:) They are called parrot fish. and are just adorable. They are so fat and have cute little eyes and their lips make a cute little smile. They come in all different colors but Dalton picked the red one that he wanted, well it's more of an orange.

Guess how much the fish was......$20.00!!! And I was complaining about a 4.00 beta fish ha! Dalton held his fish in his lap in the car the whole way home and was hugging it and holding the bag up so he could look at him:) So we get home and put the new fish in the water inside the globe fish bowl that we got.

Well as you can see in the pictures Dalton is so happy about his fish, but does the fish look happy in that little bow?? NO. I guess I didn't realize when my brother had these fish he had them in a HUGE aquarium tank. Well that night my family came over to see his new fish and my Uncle who knows almost everything about all fish was there and he was telling me I have to get a filter tank with a fish like that. SO my mom went to the store with Chantz to get one while I did my homework at home with Dalton and my brother. ANOTHER $40.00 for the tank they got. That $4.00 beta is sounding pretty good right now:)
While they were there they realized because of the shape of their mouth they need pellets not flakes which is the food we had already bought. ANOTHER 6.00 how nice:)
I don't actually have pictures yet of the fishy in his new home with the big tank that's in Dalton's room, but when he was first in there he was SO lonely you could just tell he was going to die from being by himself.

(please excuse the mess in the dining room pictures we are in the midst of finding paint colors and decorations) SO we went to petsmart that following weekend and bought some plants for the tank along with a sucker fish and some big headed goldfish looking thing. ANOTHER 30.00 so by the time we added it all up this couple of 20 cent fish we were going to get ended up way over 100.00 hahaha. That's just something usual that goes on with us we never think things ALL the way through but at least Dalton loves them and he has his own pet who can actually sleep in his room and not bother him unlike Aggie haha. We are going to move them into the new playroom we'll be doing soon because right now Dalton wants NOTHING to do with sleeping in his room becasue of the sound from the pump running so we need to have it go back to the way it was but we are not getting rid of our new 100 dollar investment hahaha they will just go into the playroom and that's what we're going to be basing our decorating on:)