Dipper and Dapper

Today we welcomed two new members of the family.  I hope they are robust and long lived.  Levi was ecstatic. 

When we came back from USA, I promised Levi that we would get a dog as soon as we were able.  He had grown up with Kazi, the first year and a bit of his life.  He wanted a dog since she died.  I figured that when we came here, I would buy a little house and we could get a dog and a cat.  Of course, once I bought into the farm, all ability to get a pet for him failed.  There is a dog here, but Pippy is old and frankly a bitch to any other dog.  Pippy is Jo's dog and when she spends too much time downstairs, Jo gets all depressed and "no one loves me"!  I spend time trying to send Pip back upstairs.  Even after Pip dies, we won't be able to get a dog, because it will always be Jo's.  I prefer dogs more trained (and trainable) than Jo as well, so I think that it wouldn't even be the same type of dog.

 

We can't get a cat because Jo is allergic and so that is out as long as we live here.  This leaves little to actually get that doesn't have more drawbacks than attributes.  So Levi and I talked about fish.  He was very excited and I figured that we could give it a shot and see how robust they were. 

The tank that I found has a great feature that it also runs a night light through it.  So it solves several things at once.  A nice little bubbly sound to sleep to and a muted blue light.  I took these photos with the iphone, so they aren't particularly good, but it shows him sleeping soundly behind the tank.  Of course Levi had to get up a few times to use the toilet before sleeping.  I hope that the bubbly water noise doesn't increase the chance he (or I) wet the bed!

The other big revelation that I have been having a fun chat on facebook about is that Levi got a couple of new teeth in the last week.  He assures me that he told me about it and I will say that I do remember something along that line.  He had been complaining about his mouth the last few weeks and I have been, well, ignoring it.  Finally last night I took a flashlight and actually 'looked' in his mouth.

I found this great website about Tooth Development.  It shows in animation how the teeth come in and when they come out.  These new teeth in Levi's mouth are huge!  They must be adult tetth and it amazes me that they fit in his mouth and it certainly makes me think that it really did actually hurt a lot for them to grow through.  We still have two more to go.  I will be a little more sympathetic for the next two at least.

Oh and I forgot, Levi named the fish Dipper and Dapper, which I think is quite good.  The snail got a name as well but was much less memorable and so I promptly forgot it.  I will have to check it again in the morning!