New projects

Friday is the furballs' 1st birthday and Cha-ching will celebrate his 1st on Monday the 25th, but this Tuesday is Hallie's (the niece) seventh birthday. So yesterday they had her bowling party. Daddy's shoulder is bothering him so he didn't bowl but Mommy had fun with her pitiful bowling.

While Mommy was helping get ready for Hallie's party, Rayna (the other niece) brought Mommy a picture of Rayna with Santa from this past Christmas. Mom was so excited that she came right home after the party and used her new Cricut cartridge, Christmas Cheer, to create a scrapbook page.

She also finally found the picture she was looking for for the Mickey page she created using her Mommy's cartridges, Mickey and Friends and Mickey Fonts.Mom has been spending a lot of time lately playing with her new machine. We don't mind too much because that means that we can lay on our quilt and watch her. She occassionally sprays the quilt with our catnip hydrosol. DaisyMae Maus' mom sent McKenzie and Zoey the hydrosol in their Christmas gifts a year ago and we love it! Mom just recently had to order new bottles from Prairieland Herbs. Here's Gandalf cuddling with the bottle:

Good thing it's very reasonably priced because then she doesn't have to save it for "special" occasions.

Thursday Thirteen

So this Thursday, I'm going to list all the things we did while Mom was home:

1. Destroyed the first of what will be many catnip ravioli (hey we made it last two days!)

2. Destroyed a red feather boa (we're working on the pink one still)

3. Napped on the new quilt while Mom worked in her craft room

4. Checked out all the stuff the refrigerator repairman brought when he looked at the refrigerator today.

5. Ran around outside in the rain everytime we could get out the door.

6. Cha-Ching got neutered!

7. Helped Mom with loads of laundry by re-furring them as soon as they came out of the dryer

8. Played with the nieces on Christmas

9. Poo'ed on Aunt Kim's bed (well, in his defense, Cha-Ching did get closed in the room and there was no litter box).

10. Brought more bits of wood in from outside (Mom here: Anybody have any info to share on why the furballs like to carry in small bits of wood? Is it bad for them? Is there any way to stop it?)

11. Helped Mom scrapbook pictures of us and make a thank you card for Pat for the kitty photo book

12. Tried ham for the first time - yum yum - now we know why the Meezers like it so much!

and 13. Got lots and lots of loving and tummy scritches from Mom!

Oh and one other, we helped her pick out pictures for scrapbooking, especially this one:

It's the niece carrying Smoke around (which she does whenever she comes over). The Furballs, especially Smoke, are great with kids and other than a few pleaing looks to save them, put up with all the love and attention that the kids lavish on them.

Visit to the vet

Mommy says that I'm going back the vet on Wednesday to have a check up so they can see how I'm doing since I got sick on the bad food. Mommy's really worried because I'm such a picky eater now and she thinks I've lost a lot of weight. She's praying really hard that everything's okay.

That made me think of this picture of Auntie Val's daughter Rayna from a couple of years ago. She always prayed with one eye open. I guess she wanted to make sure that they didn't start eating without her. I can understand that because, with the furballs, I can't take my eyes off of them or they'll be gobbling up my food!