Sunday, December 23, 2007

Animal kingdom

Yesterday I had hippos on the brain. I know -- hippos -- it seems a little strange. But I ran across this website and had the song stuck in my head the rest of the day. I remember loving this song when I was younger. I can remember listening to it in the car. I'm pretty sure my dad sang along.

So yesterday when I saw cute pink hippos at IKEA, I was seriously considering buying one. But then I saw sharks and decided to get one for Sharkdog. Normally when Sharkdog gets a new toy, he's very hesitant about it at first. He'll dance around it, trying to sniff it without getting too close, and eventually he'll start playing with it. But when I showed him the shark, he tried to grab it immediately. And he played with it for quite a while. He even brought it to bed last night.


In other news, the Rushers started celebrating the holidays a little early. Check out Sharkdog's blog to read about today's happenings.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've read 2 blogs this morning and both talked about Hippo's. The other one was from Tam (in Africa) and she actually saw a pond with lots of real hippo's ..not little pink ones from IKEA. Same pond had lots of big crocidiles..not sharks.

Summer said...

Yall are crazy and Sharkdog is too cute! Wish I could get Trigger to look that cute in a picture. :-) Hope you guys have a Merry Christmas in a new country this year!

Alisha said...

Mom - I hope Tam was careful. I've heard hippos can be pretty mean. Did you check out the link? Did it bring back lots of fond memories?

Summer - It's a good thing we have a digital camera, because that photo of Sharkdog was one out of out about 10. I don't like using the flash, but if Sharkdog moves at all the picture is blurry. Sometimes I just get lucky.