Geico the Texas Gecko

Yesterday, the kids found a gecko in our house and they were very excited! They really wanted to keep it for a pet. Jill and I decided that would be fine.

Jill wound up catching it while I was at work. So when I got home from work Jill went to the pet store and got a cage, etc. The etc. in the previous sentence included it's food...

live crickets!

We warned the kids that the gecko would eat live crickets, but they were fine with that.

The kids decided to name the gecko "geico". They love the funny Geico commercials with the gecko in them. Ever since they saw the gecko do the robot they have been big Geico fans. Those Geico commercials are an example of Awesome Television Marketing. Because of those commercials we have a gecko named Geico living in our house.

Anyway, it's actually kind of cool having a gecko in the house. Albeit, neither Jill or I would ever have imagined that we would have 5 pets!

When we got married we had zero pets. Now we have a dog named ruff, a fish named fishy, two gerbils named pablo penguin and chewey uniqua, and a gecko named geico. It's like we have our own personal zoo. If we get any more pets we are going to have to start charging for admission.