In Memoria redux

Pizza Blank Wank Kennedy passed away on Friday after two years with our family. The Bean has this to say about Pizza: She was a very good fish and she already died this weekend. I am going to name my new fish from Fins and Feathers Christmas. Pizza made me feel happy because he is very nice. I hope Pizza goes to fish heaven really soon. God Bless Pizza, you are a very very very very nice fish, and I am so sad that your died, and my whole family is very sad that you died and I am going to get a new fish and name it Christmas."

Mom will always remember Pizza as the miracle fish who, like the Bean, survived the dresser tipping over with only scratches despite being out of his bowl for at least five minutes. Dad says he thought that Pizza's middle name was "thin crust."

Talk about differences between children: the Moo was devastated when Hani died and cried for hours. When Mom broke the news to the Bean that Pizza had passed away, she said "OK" thought for a minute, and asked, "Can I get a new fish?"

Hopefully these differences will not surface in a negative way when the Bean goes in for admissions testing this week at LCDS. On Tuesday she has her one on one DIAL test with the lower school head, Mrs. Butman (a wonderful and extremely nice lady, but unfortunately the Bean can not hear her name without cracking up - let's hope she gets it out of her system before Tuesday) and on Friday she has an activity session with other applicants, including a friend from Beantree. The activity session will be run by the Moo's former Pre-K teacher who knows the Bean well, so hopefully that will clear the way as well.

That's about the most exciting thing going on in the Moo Bean household this coming week. The Moo is excited because she starts after school Math club on Tuesday. Mom was thrilled at how enthusiastic she was about joining this group, until the Moo let slip that the reason she was so enthused was because Aidan is in the Tuesday group as well. Aidan is a first grader, and back when we first started at LCDS he was the only other child there in then mornings when Dad used to drop the Moo off super early. That only lasted for a few months, but the Moo never forgot Aidan. He, however, forgot her, and she told me early in this year, "Aidan does not remember me from last year, but I will make sure he remembers me now!" It has been all Aidan all the time since then. So, for Moms out there wondering how early starts, the answer based on my experience is Kindergarten! And for any future boyfriends out there wondering how to capture the Moo's interest, just pretend you don't remember her.

Finally, congratulations to the Cook family and welcome little Carsten Cook, who was born this week. We are looking forward to following this littlest chicken's progress and meeting him the next time we out in CA!