Forgive this silly post.  But for my birthday Julie gave me an "acrylic-based resin pigment expanding frog".  As cool as it is, this is not one of those instantly gratifying gifts: you have to place it water, and over the course of ten days it grows to 600% of its original size.  Here's the time lapse of how it all went down:

I'm such a proud frog daddy. :^)  In the off chance that the above video doesn't satisfactorily convey to you the full experience of my frogrearing, the HD version is here.

But wait, the story gets better!  Julie's birthday is a few weeks after mine, so for her gift I went into the Mission and got a princess doll to dress her up:

That's not a casket by the way, it's a princess frog display case. :^)

Here I am sharing a final tender moment with Lily in the park before handing her off to her new adoptive family:

Good luck Lily, and thanks for the memories! :^)