Shelley’sTangents

So, why am I still up after midnight on Mother’s day?  Well, I suppose it’s not Mother’s day anymore, but that’s not the point.  My Mom had the kids last night and today and let Nicky take a nap today until 1500… yeah me.  He’s just not giving it up… he’s gotten into my lotion and poured it all over my window sill… he will not stay in bed for the life of him.  I feel like there is no good answer here.  I tried staying in there with him but that didn’t work.  I stay out for  a bit and he gets up…. I leave and keep checking on him and he just waits for me to look in on him.  I know this is normal, but that doesn’t help sometimes when you are by yourself and you just are simply exhausted… oh well.  He cannot be up forever right?

So, here I am again with another fish tale I suppose.  My sweet little and completely innocent (yeah, right…) Nicky again decided that the fish were hungry.  He climbed up on a few things to get to the fish food that I had purposefully had up high so he couldn’t get to and dumped the entire thing into the aquarium again.  Then he had gotten the fish net and was fishing out the fish… now, I don’t know how he does it truthfully.  Those fish are hard for me to catch half the time… The difference this time though when he caught them was he was just dumping them out on the floor.  Surprisingly, only one died.  Officially, I feel like the worst Mom ever for not being able to keep the permanent eye on him and keep him from getting into this mess… I now have a very clean aquarium and a new hiding spot for the fish food though.

In true Nicky fashion he got into some more mischief.  He woke up and without waking me up or even making a peep, he went in to the living room.  Now, apparently the fish must have looked hungry.  Certainly, we can all tell that fish look hungry right?  So he dumped about a half of a container full of food into the aquarium.  That should be enough right?  Then for some reason unknown he thought they needed some lotion… yes, lotion.  I don’t know, I honestly have no idea where that thought process went.  Then because the tank was dirty he got out the bucket that I put them in and started to catch the fish… the only problem being that there was about an inch of water in the bucket.  This is where I heard something and went to check things out.  The one angelfish was swimming on it’s side.  I was at a lost for words except for him to go to his room.  I took all the fish out, extensively cleaned it and then put them back in.  Now, the funny part is that we had two snails that hadn’t moved in over a week.  All of a sudden they are moving now and motoring around the aquarium now.  The shark (Bruce) now doesn’t chase the angelfish (Moe and Curly as Larry died a while back now).  Which leads to the thought process that a little lotion will help your fish or either the near death experience will.

And, by the way, Nicky can now tell you that Mommy is the only one to feed or clean out the fish aquarium…