Travis and Sam win the award for one of Caroline's favorite gifts this year - a pet of her own! They gave her everything she needed to make a home for her very own beta fish and she was very specific in her wants upon choosing her fish. She had a particular look and color in mind and, by golly, she wanted a GIRL! What she didn't realize was that girl beta fishes look nothing like the boy beta fishes that she had in mind and that they're really not pretty at all. It might not been one of my prouder ethical moments, but I was somehow able to convince her that the pretty beta fish could be considered a girl and she could have exactly what she was wanting in a fish. She'll figure it out one day and hopefully she'll laugh with the rest of us, but for now she has a boy beta fish that she thinks is a girl and her (his?) name is Pearl.

Welcome to the family, Pearl joy...