Our 1st Family Pet!

So today I finally caved and let our family get it's first pet! It all started a few weeks ago when Gage brought home a horny toad from a trip we took to the Barton's cabin. He named him Spike. He took such great care of it, both of the boys did actually. They were very cute about it, they would go out every morning and find it ants to eat, give it water, got a big bowl and put sand and rocks in it to make a comfy little home for it, Gage even had me check the internet to see how to best care for him. Well apparently lizards are extremely difficult to care for because they have to be kept a certain temperature and unfortunately Spike ended up dying. Gage was very upset because he had tried so hard to take good care of him. This all happened around Gage's birthday so we thought we would get him another one for a gift but we had no idea it would cost about $200 to get everything you need to properly care for a lizard!!!! We decided not to go with that idea but Gage has been insistent ever since that he wants a new lizard. Then Max started in that he wants a turtle and Eliza just wanted any ol' pet we would let her have! Turtles ended up being the same thing as lizards, not quite as expensive but still over $100. So we opted to start with a fish! We got a beta fish and a little tank to start but so far so good. Eliza decided to name the fish Flexy. Why? I don't know but that's what we are calling it. Here are a few pics of the tank we chose and the rocks were obviously chosen by Eliza, then the boys added a few of their toys to make it look a little more interesting for Flexy.