I'm very excited to introduce you all to my new fish - his name is Chicken On a Chain. Named after my favorite Hall of Fame bull. I am keeping him in his bowl because he has to live in water. But, that doesn't mean he still can't hang out in the barn with my other animals. I am having fun feeding him and watching him swim around. Maybe one day I can teach him how to ride a tractor.
Cast pearls before swine,
HAJ
Daddy bought me a new fish! I love this fish and could watch it swim forever. This fish was originally owned by another family, who thought this was a girl fish and named it Gumdrop. Turns out she's a he, and he's not real friendly to other fish, so the family returned him to the store. Daddy had to have him, and he renamed him - Molly Gumdrop. (MV -please direct all hate mail to my dad.)
HAJ
I'd like to introduce to you all, my new pet - Mugsy. Isn't he so cool?! I love how flowy and spikey he is. We went to the fish store and there were all kinds of fun fish. I just loved looking at all of them. But when I saw this guy, I knew he was the one for me. He swam right on over to me and nuzzled his little nose on the side of the bowl. He looked at me with those big, black eyes, and I just couldn't resist. He likes it when I pet him. We're going to be pals forever!
As for tonight, we're hoping to get together with my cousins, and my uncle, and my bud Palmer. We'll see what we can work out.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door,
HAJ
I'm emotionally unavailable to the Vikings.
Last night Mom fed me what they call "pureed green beans." They were actually pretty good at first. I get really excited when I'm eating big kid food. I start squeeling and kicking and moving my hands. But towards the end of the bowl, I was starting to get over them and I would gag when Mom put them in my mouth. She was dying laughing, and then she did it again so Daddy could see. They were both laughing at me. Finally they stopped and put the beans away. Tonight I get my first shot at peas, but I saw there was some bananas in the cupboard, so maybe they'll be nice and let me have those. I'll let you know...
There is some sad news in the Johnston home to report - my first and only pet "Catfish Fancy Pants" passed away sometime in the night. He moved into our new home with us, and helped us deal with the passing of our last fish, Stevie Nicks, who later became known as Terry Schiavo (because she refused to eat.) He lived a wonderful 7 months and brought us a lot of happiness. He'll truely be missed.
AND -for those of you wondering, the mouse count is up to 8, but we haven't seen anything since New Year's day. We're hoping we've turned a "no more mouse" corner.
See you in 2 & 2 - HAJ
I love these shorts from my Gammy! They have my name embroidered on them with cool fish too. I had to wear that outfit in TX cuz its just too cold to wear around here.
Well, we're supposed to be off on our second world tour in two weeks today, but Daddy is still sick. So, I'm not sure if we're leaving or not today. Mom and I feel really bad for him. If worse comes to worse, we'll just leave tomorrow. The weather isn't the best here yet anyway. We're supposed to be off to Spirit Lake, IA to see my Great G&G Wingen, then to SD to see the gang in the Brookings area, and then on Sunday we're off to Aber to see G&G E. We have a truck full of presents to haul too. I'm kind of interested in the presents. I love the shiney paper and the bows. I might try diggin' into one here one of these days.
Not much else going on - oh, the mouse count is holding steady at 5. Are we done?
HAJ
First of all - let me apologize for not blogging the last few days. My mom has come down with the flu bug that I had last weekend, and she just hasn't been in the mood to help me turn the computer on. But, we're both feeling much better today now finally! Whew!
OK - so when we got home fron TX, Mom noticed her bowl of apples that were sitting on the counter had been chewed on! EWWWW! We all deducted that we must have had a mouse! OMG!!! We're all so grossed out - we can hardly stand it! So, Daddy, being the protector that he is, went out and bought some traps and set them out with bait. Well, the next morning we had two mice. GRODY! So, Dad set the traps again last night and we had two more mice this morning. We can't hardly step into the kitchen these days. We'll set them again tonight, but hopefully its over. I just can't believe it.
Check out this little video clip if you want to see real man devour some lefsa- don't tell Mom or Great Grandma E how much I enjoyed it - well, not quite as much as I enjoy suckin' on my toes. Can you believe I can even reach them in all of my chubbiness? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CXwm_gV3hg
HAJ
