Zila, our first pet

Elise's teacher bought elise a small acquarium and a gift card to Petco so that we could buy a fish. Elise loves all of the animals at school and so she was super psyched for our first pet. We bought "Zila" on Monday and she lived a short 2 days. And yes, I was freaking out the whole time. 

Anyway, the reason why I'm posting is because tonight, Elise asked what homeless people so when it rains (we are in the middle of El Niño).  In this conversation, I explained to her that when people don't have homes or food, that we should think about giving them homes or food. And then she immediately said, "Ms. Courtney cared for us because we didn't have any animals and so she bought us a pet".