In which Adi sets a goal and attains it in a week

"Mom, I really want to get a pet frog," Adi said to me not-so-long ago.

"Hmmm... start saving your money and you can get one."

"Really?!  I have to buy it's enclosure (they don't call them cages anymore, Mom), rocks, food..." Adi was squealing in delight.

I continued playing on the computer doing important work, without giving it much more thought.  I knew Adi and I knew that she would never be able to save that much money.  She likes spending it waaay to much.

Guess who proved me wrong?

After doing numerous extra chores around the house (and I believe Nana helped her out a bit monetarily), spending hours on the computer googling everything frog care, and watching so many Youtube videos on how to set up a frog enclosure... she did it.  She saved up over $40 to get the dang frog.

Let's just say she impressed her old parents just a bit.

She even had a price comparison sheet of different stores for all of the things she would need.

*sigh*

Let's go get the creature.

We went to Walmart (as listed on her sheet) to get a few things.

Look at her, acting all grown up.

Then over to Petco we went.

Daddy (and everybody else in the family) helped set up the environment.

See that little food jar sitting there all innocently?  That's ground up crickets.

Imagine just how wonderful that smells.

Piper fell so in love with Adi's frog (I don't know why.  I personally think they're pretty darn boring), that she went out and bought her own the very next day.

They are getting along just fine.

*wink*

Everyone loves watching them eat.  Guess what's worse than a jar of ground up crickets?  Keeping a bag of live crickets to feed them since they only eat things that move.

Oh... the best part?

The girls named the stupid things Orrin and Courtney.