We have an aquarium with fish as well as two class parakeets who are 
renamed each year by the students.  Our birds' names are now 
Jewel (the girl) and Rio (the boy). They love to go to their 
classmates' homes for the weekend.  They come with a journal in which 
your family may write about their adventures with you.  We will soon 
be having intersessions and holidays.  If you are interested in 
having them over a longer stretch, please let me know.  They don't 
take much care, and you will have lots of fun with them!