Sunday, January 18, 2009

RIP Jake Johnson


Here is a picture of Jake when we first got him at Andie's 6th birthday party.


Jake Johnson
2/16/06-1/17/09


This evening we were very sad to find our dear friend Jake Johnson floating at the bottom of the fish bowl. We had noticed last night that he was not very active. He usually swims up to the surface when I feed him. Well last night he just sat there, then did like three flips before floating back to the bottom. I told Lucas that I was pretty sure Jake was on his way up to fishy heaven when he did one final flop.

You should have seen the look on Luke's face when I was talking about Jake dying. He said to me through clenched teeth, "You know Jake can live forever," suggesting that we just replace him without the girls knowing. I thought that it would be better to tell them and have a funeral for the fish.
So we asked Andie what she would want to do if Jake were to leave us. She said she wanted to go to Wal-Mart and get another Jake. She was totally onto what we were saying, so we explained that Jake looked sick and that he might not be with us much longer.

Tonight after returning from a Baptism Fireside for Andie, we noticed that Jake had indeed gone to that big ocean in the sky. Lucas showed Avery that Jake was gone and then all of us gathered in the bathroom. After some farewell words from Lucas the girls said good-bye. Avery said "Poor Jake" then walked out of the bathroom and said "Let's go get another Jake."

2 comments:

The Richards said...

Your girls are just so dang cute! darn Jake bad timing....but atleast their are more fish huh? So is she feeling better? I hate it when my kids are sick, hey how are you pretty soon you will have another one right? Tell us about you, we want to know!

Bell Family said...

Aww! That is both sad and cute! Atleast she didn't take it too hard!