I had Monday off and while I was getting Nora ready for Nursery, she was looking at the fishes in the fish tank, saying hello to the baby fishes as she calls them.

Suddenly, she told me ‘Mama fish not swimming’

I looked in the fish tank and sure enough, one of the little fishes was lying on the gravel at the entrance of the pineapple house.

‘Fish sleeping’ Nora explained to me.

I told her ‘Yes, fish is sleeping. Let’s tell daddy and say bye bye to the fish.’

Which she did and we went to Nursery.

When she came back from Nursery in the evening, she looked for the fish. ‘Fish gone’ she said.

I told her ‘Yes, fish is now gone.’

I’m so glad that we only have some fish and no cute, cuddly, furry animal in the house. I think Nora is just a bit too little to understand the concept of death but it will be something that we will talk about in the future.