Fishies

On Monday I took Jaxson, Ella and Gabe to the aquarium. I knew it would be quite a task to take the 3 kids to the aquarium by myself but I needed to get out of the house and I knew the little munchkins would be entertained by the fish. Those of you that have 3 kids and take them places by yourself on a regular basis...YOUR BRAVE and I don't want to hear that it is no big deal to take them, or that they are perfect little angels wherever you go, because you are in DENIAL! Regardless of the fact that it was hectic trying to keep track of them when they all wanted to be looking at different things, it was fun to see their little faces when they were looking at the fish. I think the highlight for Jaxson and Gabe was the tank with the sharks, every time one would swim by the boys would say "Wow dat one is HUGE! I wouldn't want to be in da water with dat!" Keep in mind that this is a small aquarium and that the sharks are rather small, but to little kids they are huge. Ella would point at the fish and say "Mommy fishies! Mommy fishies! Fishies cute!" When she says cute it sounds more like toot, which makes it even cuter. Whenever I would tell her to come look at another fish she would say "Mommy I want fishies first." Which meant that she didn't understand that we would be looking at other fish, she thought we were done looking at fish and Ella wasn't ready to go. After we had seen all of the fish, several times and the kids had crawled through the little coral tunnel it was time to go home. This did not go over well with any of them and they all took turns throwing fits while we were walking out to the car. Later that night when I was putting Jaxson to bed he said "Mom, remember da octopus? He had a big head, just like Daddy!" Needless to say, this made me laugh! Nick thought it was pretty funny too.

I think next time I decide to take the 3 of them, I will have backup, I was out-numbered, but the kids had fun!