Happy Birthday Josie and Huggy Bear!

Happy Birthday to my sister and brother, Josie and Huggy Bear! It was three years ago today that Mom came home from a trip to find a litter if four kittens. One was this sweet little tuxie who turned looked like Mom's first cat (the one who came before) and Mom fell in love with Josie right away. While we found homes for two others, Huggy Bear turned out to be so so sweet that he just belonged with us.

As a kitten Josie liked to play on the stairs of the apartment, and look down from the high perch.

The kittens would sleep in the pine straw around the shrubs. Frisky (the tabby) looks so much like Maggie (and momma cat), except he was a boy and a huge ball of energy. The other black was Huggy Bear's twin, Curly, and the first to be adopted.

This is Huggy Bear early after becoming a part of the family.

These two have been such a meaningful part of my life. I was two when they came into my life, and I learned what cat-family is all about, playing together, cleaning, snuggling, biting butts and wrestling ... you know, all the great cat stuff you do with siblings. I can't believe three years have gone by this fast! HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY, Josie and Huggy Bear! Thanks for being my sister and brother.

SSSTTTRRRRREETTTCCCHHHH!

SSSTTTRRRRREETTTCCCHHHH!
Originally uploaded by sharkgrrl

Dad was jumping from Flickr accounts visiting some of our cat blog friends' pictures and did a search for photos in Columbia, SC and found this one. I thought it was worth sharing.

Thursday Thirteen, #2 (Best Napping Spots)

For my second Thursday Thirteen I'm going easy ... the thirteen best napping spots:
1) Window sill ... especially when the windows are open.
2) Sink ... can't beat it on a warm summer day.
3) Half wall in the bathroom ... kind of like the sink for a cool spot because of the tiles, but it also puts me in the perfect spot to get chin skritches.
4) Cat stand ... we have this metal plant stand that has a special spot just for me to curl up in. It's great because my fur hangs down through the square holes in the stand and I can feel the cool air under me. I also like it bunches because no one else sleeps there.
5) Laundry ... clean, dirty, folded or balled up doesn't matter to me.
6) Dad's pillow ... this is a very brief, drive-by napping, usually about a minute when he's getting ready for bed, watching either The Daily Show or Cash Cab After Dark. He has a nice cervical pillow with the hole in the middle, which is great for curling in.
7) The empty side of the bed ... when only Mom or only Dad is in the bed I like to sleep on the other side. Oddly, I have less interest in the bed when they're both there.
8) Up on a box ... the garage still has plenty of good boxes to sleep on, and that usually means being up in a high high place.
9) Back of the couch ... this is Josie's number one spot, usually looking out a window.
10) In front of the fireplace ... Huggy Bear likes this spot because he's black and so is the fireplace so he blends in really well.
11) In the closet ... Josie now likes to sleep in the master closet, I think because when Dad brings the ironing board past her she attacks the strings hanging from the ironing board.
12) At Mom's feet ... when Mom is on the computer Maggie likes to curl up on her feet.
13) On our Kitty Kozy in the stroller ... while Josie isn't the biggest fan of the stroller when it is outside, she loves to sleep on the kozy (from Timmy's Grammie) inside the stroller, so Mom and Dad keep the stroller open and inside so she can nap and get comfortable in it.

Wordless Wednesday

Tuxie Tabby Tuesday

Josie is the huntress in our family. Look how keenly she is watching out our back window. I think she either saw a little lizard or a birdie. She is teaching Maggie her hunting skills. She is a great big sister.

Who's that mancat in the window?

I just can't believe it! I know my mom has been talking about getting a new kitten, but how in the world could she go out and get another handsome, gorgeous, ginger mancat?? Doesn't she know I'm enough ginger mancat for one house? I just don't know who she thinks she is. You can see how incredibly gorgeous he is this picture. Look how he's looking back at me...

Maggie's stink

Maggie's new thing is to try to put her stink on me. She's notorious for putting her stink on everything else, rubbing her face on the coffee table, the floor, the bed, you name it, but now she's putting her stink on me! I was standing there this morning, minding my own business, waiting for Dad to bend down and pet me when Maggie just came up and started rubbing her face across my face and side. Then she body-checked me for just that extra bit of stink. I need to get her to understand that I have my own stink, and I'm pretty happy with it, and even if it's a sign of affection I think she needs to find another way to express herself because I don't want Maggie stink on me. Am I over-reacting here?

Thursday Thirteen

Mom is feeling all congested and miserable and her nose is red from exploding so much. So for our first Thursday Thirteen here are the thirteen things that are different since Mom's feeling bad.
1. If she felt better she'd be picking us all up a few times a day. Mom tries to pick each of us up a few times each day, but yesterday she felt so bad she didn't pick us up until about 9:00 p.m.
2. If Mom felt better we'd be visiting more of our friends' blogs and making comments (we need Mom's thumbs for help).
3. Mom would be brushing our faces with the brush.
4. We get to snuggle with Mom more because she's in bed resting.
5. Right now we're getting more garage time because she doesn't have the energy to wrangle all of us back in from the garage.
6. We're catching up on episodes of Martha, Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs.
7. Mom didn't leave yesterday to go grocery shopping like she normally does on Wednesdays, so that's an extra two hours of Mom!
8. More tissues around the house to hunt. (As a kitten, I emptied an entire box of tissues once, bringing them one mouthful at a time to Mom and Dad.)
9. When Huggy Bear wanted love from Mom she tried really hard to give him pets, but then her nose would explode and scare him off. He'd slowly venture back, just in time for another nose explosion.
10. The weather is cooling down again, but no strolls for Maggie yet.
11. We don't get to hang out with Mom at lunch when she plays games online with Dad at lunch because she needs to nap instead. That means we don't get to IM Dad.
12. We get to nurse Mom back to health.
13. We know that once Mom is better she'll give us all extra attention to make up for the past few days, so better days are on the horizon!

Tabby Tuesday

Here is a great picture of our dad giving Maggie all kinds of love. Maggie loves to be held like a little baby and given head scratches. Maggie is such a loving little kitten. She is totally hugging dad. Please note her magical creamsicle foot. You can really see why my mom loves that little paw.


In this picture it looks like dad is trying to eat Maggie, but he's just giving her a kiss while giving head and chin scratches. Dad is a really good multi-tasker.

Happy Birthday Pixie!!

From all of us, we want to wish Ms. Pixie a super happy birthday. We are really hoping her mommy makes her a very special bananer cake!! Every kitty head over to Pixie's sister Daisy the Curly Cat's blog and wish Pixie "happy birthday!"

Kitty Washroom

Aunt Cathy sent us this link ... maybe Mom and Dad can go to the mall in the sky and get us one.

Jasper The Cat

Every now and then I check out my stats and see how people come to my blog. I saw someone had been searching for "Jasper the Cat" (I'm the first hit) and that there is a band called Jasper The Cat. It's not something I'd listen to over and over again. I prefer music with bird sounds, personally. But if they hit it big, I wonder if I should seek royalties?

Seven Meme

Jimmy Joe tagged us with the Seven Things Meme. The rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules
2. Write some facts about yourself: some random, some weird, some just plain fun.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them)
4. Let those 7 people know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

Thanks, first, to Jimmy Joe for tagging me (and for letting me know in a comment so I didn't miss the tag). I'll share the seven things between me and Josie, Huggy Bear and Maggie so we're all covered.
1) I have freckled on my lips and nose, little black spots, which originally concerned Mom and Dad until they learned that these spots are normal on orange cats.
2) Josie likes to sleep under the covers, especially against Mom's leg, and if Mom is up late reading cat blogs or playing Diner Dash Josie will come in and meow and fuss at her for not being in bed.
3) Huggy Bear is a big boy cat, but he has a tiny little cry. If he doesn't know where anyone is, he will cry until his name is called, then he comes running with his loud purr on.
4) Maggie has learned all her behavior from the rest of us ... she sleeps in the sink like me, she is a lover like Josie, and she plays ball and hunts like Huggy Bear.
5) Josie, Huggy Bear and Maggie all have the same Mom (Josie and Huggy Bear are from the same litter). I was born in a no-kill shelter and after being adopted, a friend of a friend adopted my mom without even knowing my Mom and Dad -- small world.
6) We all love high places. Huggy Bear and I will hang out at the top of the stairs perched looking down them. Maggie likes to climb to the highest box possible when in the garage.
7) We are so cute that Mom and Dad have way way too many pictures of us and need a new computer just to hold them all (OK, maybe they just need a new computer because their's is old). (If they take this many pictures of us I wonder what'll happen when they have kids? Still take lots of pictures of us, and maybe buy a second camera for the kid, I would have to say.)

Now, I know I'm supposed to tag seven more cats, but to be honest, I lose track of who's been tagged and not, so not to sound like a spoiler-sport, but I tag you, you, you, you, you, you and you (and "you" know who you are because you haven't been tagged yet...)

Again, thanks Jimmy Joe for tagging us ...

A very scary moment

The weather has been so nice here that we've been enjoying some open window time. Tonight Mom had opened the front windows in the dining room that are low to the ground. Mom and Dad were eating dinner while watching some TV when suddenly there was this crashing sound. They rushed in to see the screen pulled out, bent toward the outside, and with Maggie near the windowsill. It was dark outside and Mom and Dad couldn't see if any of us had jumped out, but a quick headcount revealed all but Josie. Mom went outside to look and Dad got a flashlight. Mom found a cat (Zoe, the neighbor's cat) and Dad found Josie inside (thankfully). Apparently Zoe saw Maggie and pulled the screen out trying to visit. This screen wasn't in the best shape, Dad suspects, which is why it could be pulled out, but now Mom and Dad are on high alert with the open windows. And with that screen messed up that means another closed window...

Tuxie Tuesday

Josie is the huntress of the family. The other day, Mom brought home a new orange rattle mouse from Target and she gave it specifically to Josie. Since then, Josie has been carrying her mouse around the house -- her prized possession. She even growled a deep, Huggy Bear-type growl when we got too close to her with her mouse. I stayed away, and eventually Huggy Bear and Maggie learned to keep back too, and accepted the fact that this mouse was hers.


This is an early picture when Josie first got the mouse -- you can tell because it still has feathers on its tail. Those didn't last five minutes!

Mancat Monday

My dad and I (and my mom) have a manly Saturday tradition, we watch Tennessee football. My dad has called me "Big Orange Cat" for obvious reasons, but mainly because of The University of Tennessee. You see, my dad and mom both graduated from there and are huge UT fans. I have been a Vols fan since I was 4 months old (that was my first football season). My favorite place to watch the game is sitting on the couch with my dad. Or if the game is getting really good I hop up on the coffee table for a better view of the TV.

They said if I had been gray, my name would have been "Smokey." Personally I can't believe they would even think about naming me after a drooler. (But for a drooler, he's pretty cute.)


--Now I know there lots of people out there ready to give us a hard time about Saturday's game against Florida, don't worry about saying a word. We've heard everything. This post is about me and my dad doing manly mancat things together. We take our wins with our losses and move on. Now by no means are we happy about the loss to Florida. Did dad say a few bad words? Yes. Did mom throw a catalog across the room during the game? Yes - But as I said before we move on, and on Sunday we were very happy about Peyton Manning and the Colts win over the Titans.

Floofy Friday

Here is Huggy Bear in his best Floofy Friday Full Monty pose. He was having a great time Full Monty-ing the other night while Mom was working on her recipe blog. Although she doesn't make cat food, we still like to supervise her time in the kitchen.


Huggy Bear has what Mom describes as a yummy tummy, and a very floofy one, too. He has what must be a "purr button" on his tummy because when Mom or Dad pets his tummy he just starts purring so loud that it could wake you up.

PS - Everyone needs to go over and visit Oscar and meet his new baby bean!

Surfer rescues dog from waves

This is a nice story... A dog was swept from a pier into Lake Michigan by a large wave and a surfer saved the dog just as the dog was about to give up.

Wordless Wednesday - Undercover Kitties

Tabby Toesies Tuesday

My mom just loves Maggie's toesies! To tell you the whole truth, she loves all of our toesies, but Maggie has one very unique paw that I think my mom really favors. It's her creamsicle paw. It's so crazy -- she has three regular tabby cat paws and one ginger paw! Mom has called it her creamsicle paw since she was a tiny kitten. I guess she really is my sister if she's part ginger.

Thanks Meep!

We are so honored and humbled to be nominated by Meep for this award. It really means a lot to us over here. We really try to focus on the good things in life. Life is good for us McKitten-Cats and we can only hope to spread that love around. Thanks again Meep!

We would like to nominate all of the kitties at catblogosphere because each and every one of you have such a special place in our hearts, but my mom said we needed to pick three. So here they are....We would like to nominate William, Finny and Buddy, and Scooby, Shaggy and Scout. We picked William because he is one of the first blogs we went to and he has always been so welcoming and nice to us. Finny and Buddy because their blog makes us laugh and their mommy does very nice things for people (like her long, long bike ride for MS). And SSS and their mom - They always have the nicest things to say and are very encouraging like when my mom and dad took in Maggie and her litter. They always had good advise and encouraging words. Thanks every kitten for all the nice you put out there.

Big helpers

Mom and Dad labored on Labor Day, painting the bonus room over the garage. Maggie helped pick out the colors. Mom knows what fabric she wants the curtains made from, so we needed to match up the colors. Maggie has a good eye for that (really, no pun intended).


Maggie is very dedicated to helping match the colors. She really likes the fabric, and the strings that come off of it.


Huggy Bear helped during the painting by holding the drop cloth in place. He'd also check to see if the paint was dry yet by brushing his tail against the wall. Luckily, it was usually dry.

Wordless Wednesday

It's not our fault

It was bound to happen at some point ... it's not really our fault. You see, Mom and Dad were working out in the front yard ... Dad pushing the thing that eats the grass and Mom pulling the weeds that seem to grow when nothing else will. Dad had taken a load of clippings to the compost pile across the street in the woods and was heading back with the Gorilla Cart (one of Mom and Dad's favorite things ever!) and Mom thought she heard a "tinkle, tinkle, tinkle" ... and then Mom looks up and said "Oh, NO!" Dad came running to see that the front door hadn't latched correctly, and the door had breezed open a crack. It was enough that we were able to brave a second outside. Well, not "we" because I was sitting on the inside steps saying, "Guys, I don't think that's a great idea," but Huggy Bear and Josie and Maggie all ventured out onto the front porch. As soon as Mom yelled Maggie darted straight in, then Josie and Huggy Bear. Now, every now and then, Maggie will sit by the front door like she wants out or something. She doesn't realize there are mean dogs and fast cars and no food bowls outside.

I think Maggie has been pacified with a lot of garage time, though. Last night Dad gave us tons of garage time because Mom and Dad are painting the bonus room over the garage (we helped pick the colors and supervised a lot -- pics to come later), but when Maggie was in the garage she cornered a frog! Dad came in to see the frog hopping and hopping as Maggie watched and swatted playfully at it. Dad wrangled all of us out of the garage and let the frog escape, but Maggie and Josie have been patrolling ever since, ever vigilant for intruders!

To top things off ... Tuesday morning Maggie made another attempt at slipping out, with Huggy close behind. The termite inspector stopped her at the door, but I think she wanted to go out and hunt for that frog again.

Kitten fever

Have you been reading about Dinah and the Mites? Their adventures are too cute. Between them and the Lucy and the "littles" over at Grr, Midnight and Cocoa, I think Mom is getting kitten fever. Let's hope she eats her chicken noodle soup and gets over this fever soon ... yikes!

Good-bye Ubee, Oscar the puppycat, and Anastasia


We will miss you all...Ubee, Oscar,and Anastasia. and Brendan





Answers from Wordless Wednesday

To answer a few questions -

Are you chewing those leaves, I love to chew leaves? FAZ
yes and no - yes, I love to chew on leaves. It's one of my favorite pastimes. But no, not in this picture. My mom has a peace lily that have almost killed several times from chewing on the leaves.

Do you dig the soil out? We would. Eric and Flynn
No I don't dig in the dirt. Since my sisters and brother were feral cats to begin with, they sort of liked the dirt. And one time one of them pooped in the plant when they were kittens. (I'm not naming names....) But mom put pebbles in the dirt and we never had that trouble again. Plus I have never done my business outside. I was born in a no-kill shelter and my mom and dad adopted me from there so I have also had the luxury of a litter box.

Does that make good camel-flage to hide out from the youngsters? Scooby, Shaggy & Scout
Not really...they always find me.

What are you hiding from? Henry Helton
And as to what I was doing in the palm tree...well I was smacking the branches and Maggie was getting them. You can't see her but the staircase is on the right and she can reach her little arm through and get the palms if someone pushes them down. Just being a good big brother! Also I like to practices my balance beam act by walking around the edge.

Thanks everyone for your questions and comments. You guys and gals ROCK!!

Please know how much all us McKitten-Cats (and our mom and dad) love being part of the cat blogging community. We can cheer for the winners of the Monty Q and mourn our friends who have gone over the Rainbow Bridge -- through the good and bad times we all stick together. Thanks again!

Wordless Wednesday

Kitten Pictures

After looking at Dinah and the Mites pictures, I started feeling a little nostalgic so I thought I would post our baby pictures.


baby Jasper circa August 2002

Mom and dad have lots for baby pictures of me but they were taken with an old timey camera...you know one with film. This picture was taken with our web cam so mom could show me off to her friends back home. Sorry the quality is kinda bad.


baby Huggy Bear and Josie October 2004

Look at those little cute babies. How could you just not fall in love with them?? For those of you who don't know their story, you can read about it here, here and here.


baby Maggie August 2005

The first picture is just after Maggie had her surgery. You can still see how swollen her little cheek was. She was so tiny and sweet - mom and dad just fell in love with her. (They also spoiled her rotten, but that's ok since she was such a sick little kitten.) As you can see by the second picture, I sort of was protective of her. Look at that little stinker! (Here's a picture of most of Maggie's litter.)

Well I hope everyone enjoyed my trip down memory lane.

Nobody puts Huggy in the corner

Nobody puts Huggy in the corner
Originally uploaded by jenianddean

Ok Mom's been watching Dirty Dancing too much. Huggy Bear loves to sit in corners. His favorites are the one the living room where his kitty cozy is and the one at the end of the hallway near the office. And every time he's in the hallway corner, mom and dad both say "Nobody puts Huggy in the corner" and they just laugh and laugh. I didn't understand it until the other day when Encore was doing a Dirty Dancing 20th Anniversary special and played it all day long. Need I say more.....

Mom's favorite thing

Mom was lying in bed watching something on TV while Dad proofread a post on their (boring) people blog about how we've been in the house a year (blah...blah...blah...they don't even mention us in the post! But I digress...) So while she's sitting in bed watching TV, I figured since it was just a silly show anyway I'd lay beside her and let her pet my tummy. So as she is petting me, I gently flick my tail across her arm. It's my less-toothy way of telling her I love her.

Cat rides cross-country

This outdoor cat from Wisconsin hitched a ride in the back of the neighbor's moving van as they packed up and moved from outside Green Bay to Roanoke, Va. I rode in the cab of the truck when we moved from Iowa to South Carolina and let me tell you it's not a lot of fun. I couldn't imagine being in the back of the truck for three days, hot, with no food or water. At least they managed to get him home after a brief ordeal, but can you imagine!

Full/Floofy Friday

Since my mom goofed up and didn't my pictures to Monty Q on time for the Do the Q contest I thought I would just post these . These are old pictures from my house in Iowa



These are three of my mom's favorite pictures of me. The first because I'm smiling, the second because she says I look like Alf (whoever that is) and it makes her laugh, and the third because you can see my white spot on my tummy which is the first part of me my mom fell in love with.

A cat and his comics

I enjoy my comics, but maybe I wouldn't swipe the leg with my claws ... bite maybe ...

This is from Lio, a fun, quirky comic.

Wordless Wednesday

Maggie's stroller adventure

Maggie has now been on two strolls, a shorter initial stroll with Mom and Dad, then a longer stroll with Mom, Dad and Aunt Tiff.

Mom and Dad made sure to put in a Kitty Kozy for Maggie so she felt more secure on her trip out of the house. Here, she's checking things out as they head down the street. I think there was a baby in a stroller walking a dog on the other side of the street.


Maggie likes to look up through the sun roof to check on Mom as she pushed the stroller. She just likes knowing she's there.

After Maggie's big adventure, we all came down and inspected the stroller. It smelled a little different than before, more like the open windows smell, and after some detailed sniffing we OK'd it.

Since her last stroll the temperatures have been hitting the 100s, which is just way too hot to take her out. Hopefully we'll get some cool air blown in from the storms in the Gulf and cool things down so Maggie (and maybe Josie) can go on a few more strolls.

Mancat Monday

I just can't understand why mom thinks she needs to take this float to the pool, I think it's just fine right here in the garage. I'm enjoying it immensely.

Trash can

This comic just about sums up Maggie and the trash can...

New baby!

I just saw over on Oscar's blog that his Mom had her baby and is home now. And there are baby pictures (not quite as exciting as cat pictures, you know, but still...) We're very happy and excited for them!

Mom's coming home soon!

Mom has been away for what seems like forever ... she went to Atlanta last weekend, then came home Sunday only to turn around and go down toward Charleston with Aunt Trinity's family (and Aunt Tiffany, too) on Monday. She's been down playing in the sun, getting tan and burnt and having a good time with friends so old they might as well be sisters. Dad's been hanging out with us -- we played feather last night and he even gave us some (hot) garage time and lots of ice cubes and treats. Dad's a fine stand-in, and with Mom gone there's more room in the bed for me to stretch out and get belly rubs while Dad reads Harry Potter to me, but he has to work, too, so we'll be happy when Mom gets home and can hang out with us during the day.

Jasper Potter and the Toothy Death

I'm still working on getting through the last Harry Potter book. I mean, really, 759 pages is a lot, even for a big cat like me. But I've only got about 200 pages to go, and it's getting good!

(I guess considering how many pages are in this book, this post could pass as a "Wordy Wednesday" instead of a "Wordless Wednesday" ...)

Kitty Limericks about us!

Karen Jo works so hard on her limericks, and we appreciate her tributes to all of the cats in the Cat Blogosphere, so you can only imagine our excitement when we saw we were featured in her limericks! And not just one big limerick about the four of us, but instead we each had our own ... and she does the back story about us and everything. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
My limerick
Josie's limerick
Huggy Bear's limerick
Maggie's limerick

Still hot, but Mom's better

Mom is feeling much better ... she and Dad went to Atlanta this weekend to visit Aunt Nikki and help paint her nursery (she's due with number three in October and doesn't need to be around those paint fumes -- and besides, Mom and Dad enjoy painting). While they were there, they spent some quality time with Mia, one of Nikki's (technically her daughter's) cats. They took a quick nap break and Mia sneaked into the bedroom with Lizzie the dog seeing her and she got up in bed with them and purred and drooled and curled up and napped with them. Usually we'd be a little jealous, but this poor cat is loved to death (much to her disliking) by the dog, so she needed this attention.

It is still hot here, but starting to break a little. Don't know if that'll mean any garage time this week or not. We did get a few minutes last night since Mom and Dad had been out of town, but it was miserable, and we'd rather be with them after a trip anyway.

It's about nap time ... take care in all this heat. And thanks for all the well-wishes for my Mom!

Mom's sick + it's hot = no garage time

Mom has not been feeling well since Monday, with yesterday being the worst day since. She hasn't been able to eat until late last night when Dad made her some chicken noodle soup (Campbell's Soup is good food!). That's meant that we have been holding constant vigil -- sometimes even crowding her a little -- while she rests and recuperates. We hope she's on the mend now.

With Mom being sick and the temperatures being upwards toward 108 degrees, we haven't had any garage time at all. This is probably a good thing, but it is going on almost a week since we've been able to hunt for the toad, lay on the cool cement floor and climb boxes. In the meantime, I am spending a lot of time sinking to stay cool. If I'm not in the sink, I'm either on the tile wall between the tub and the shower or in cat stand (a wire mesh plant stand that I have claimed as my own -- lets the cool air blow on my belly).

I do worry about our old feral friends in this hot and humid weather. Everyone keep cool out there and be safe in this heat. It should break this weekend for us, so I hope that means it's breaking for everyone else too.

Tabby Tuesday

This is picture of Maggie with our PawPaw. He came to visit last month with our Grandma Sue, Aunt JacJac, and the allergic one, Aaron. Our PawPaw is so silly - he kept calling us dogs! Can you believe it! D-O-G-S! He is soooo silly. But I know he liked us because he would give us ice cubies and garage time.

Maggie's close encounters

Maggie is getting all the fun close encounters lately. We had some little sticky people come visit and we were all a big hit. Their mom kept saying "they're so big" about Huggy Bear and I -- she even said HB looked like a bear before she knew his name was "Bear." But the funniest encounter was between Maggie and the littlest one,around eight months old. He was getting his diaper changed on the floor and Maggie was investigating when suddenly he reached out to investigate her. She jumped back, then darted for the open coat closet door and safety. She also had an exciting encounter on her second stroller ride. She saw a fire truck go roaring by, and she also saw some sprinklers running. (She didn't really trust the sprinklers, even though they were on the opposite side of the street.) Mom and Dad (and Maggie, too) are really enjoying their evening walks.

Maggie's stroller adventure

Maggie went on her first full successful walk last night with Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad had returned from the grocery store and there was still some daylight, so they put most of the groceries away quickly (a little too quickly -- Dad left the milk sitting out in the garage all night) then loaded Maggie into the stroller with one of the Kitty Kozies from Timmy Grammie and a toy and some treats and they were off. Mom and Dad took her around the block and halfway up another street before they got close to a yard with a barking Bassett Hound and decided it was about time to turn around. Maggie saw four dogs on her walk, including two big pit bulls. When the guy came jogging by with the pits, Maggie raised up in her stroller and watched them carefully as they jogged past. Mom and Dad were very proud of how she carried herself. Most of the stroll she was lying flat with her paws in front of her in her Sphinx pose, sniffing the air and looking around. Dad took a few pictures of her, but they're still on the camera. Mom and Dad are hopeful to start taking us on more walks after seeing how well Maggie did. (I don't know if I'll go ... I'm still leary of the thing, but Josie and Maggie probably will, maybe even together.)

Widebody Wednesday

Does all this laundry make my butt look big?? :)

PS - Mom calls this my Superman pose. She says she wants to get me a cape. I think she's crazy.