COUSIN CAMP - Splash Day! July 13

This day of camp started out with a surprise - Hayden got his first very own pet (after checking with his mom of course :-) I took him the pet store and he picked out a Beta fish. He was so excited! He chose a bright blue one and promptly named him Swimmy. It is so cute to see how into this fish he is - asking all kinds of questions - like "when should I take him to the vet?" Lovie's answer "well, when he is sleeping on top of the water you ask your mom to take him to Petsmart and they will fix him right up 'just like new'" Lovie's question "when are you going to feed Swimmy every day?" Hayden's answer "when all the people come over" At first I didn't get his answer then I laughed so hard because every day that Hayden had been here at some point every day there was a group of people that just dropped in or we invited over so apparently he thinks this happens every day. One of my favorite comments came on Monday morning when Tom aka Cookie walked in and said "well guys I gotta go to work" and Hayden looked up amazed "You work?!?!" I think all he thinks we do is play and have parties!

Anyway we did have a party this day for Splash Day and invited a bunch of kids over to swim. And every guest was introduced to Swimmy by his proud owner. And Swimmy was a part of the centerpiece along with Will's goldfish which we named "Spot". Unfortunately, Spot did not survive the week of cousin camp....