Category Archives: Pets
This is why Maggie doesn’t get tennis balls.
I came home to find this.
Katie Tantrum #87
I wouldn’t let her go outside with Maggie.
Are you guys coming to bed yet?!
I was walking down the hall and heard a loud meow from above.
Following the sun
Random Katieness
She loves “ice” (she can repeat dice if we say it, but then she reverts back to saying ice).
She lost her ice… She was attempting to put it in her pocket…except her leggings didn’t have pockets so she shoved it down her pants and then couldn’t find it.
Katie showing Charlie her new toy
A new Lego lover?
I’m not sure if she thought they were snacks or she just happened to end up laying in that spot for some other random reason…but I thought it was cute.
Anything for the sun spots.
Katie: BUTT!
This is a new one.
Mom, can I pick up Charlie?
Sure.
Katie loving on Charlie
Charlie didn’t want to move.
She’s been sleeping on Katie’s changing pad lately and did not want to move when we needed to use it.
All around the Charlie ottoman
She was doing this for a good minute or so before I started recording. 🙂
Katie loving on Charlie
“Katie’s sleeping in Maggie’s bed.”
Kids in the doghouse.
Or crate, actually.
I was washing Maggie’s bed and blankets so her crate was completely empty…until this happened.
After she had Owen lock her in, he was shoving Legos in for her to play with. 🙂
Not 30 seconds later…
This bench has had boxes on it since we moved in. Today I started clearing it off. This happened within 30 seconds of me moving the first box.
Sure Charlie, why not?
Give a cat a soft place…
What I just walked in to see.
Poor Maggie
There’s very little sun coming in this house—you can see the sliver here—and how we rigged it so she could actually lay in it.
The things we do for our pets…
A relaxing end to a busy vacation.
We left Grayling a day early so we could visit and stay the night at my cousin’s house—and so the kids could play more. And we had fun… We pulled in and they said “Want to go on a boat ride?” Sure!
The kids sword fighting while we loaded the boat.
Ready to go!
On the boat!
The cabin where the kids spent most of the time playing and watching movies!
In the driver’s seat!
Proof we were actually in the water! Yes, I’m a geek. 🙂
When we finally got to the swimming area, Owen didn’t want to go in because he was scared. It didn’t matter that Tom was in the water, the other kids were in the water, and he could see that it was plenty shallow enough.
So Tom took Katie in first! And she loved it, of course!
Grilling. Off the side of a boat. Who knew that was a thing? Of course we had Timmy’s delicious brats!
Katie was having a blast in the cabin bed—she could see out the window which was right where we were sitting!
We finally convinced Owen to go out and he clung to Tom like a second skin. The guys were pulling the boat to a new location (trying to get in shallower water).
Friends of theirs came and moored with us and they had brought their dogs so Katie wanted to go over to see them.
Owen getting more comfortable in the water…
And when he saw they had a football water toy? It was GAME ON.
And suddenly he was having a blast!
He told Tom he was floating just like a balloon!
On the way home…
It was really fun and really relaxing…and the time really flies when you’re out on a boat—we left about 1:30 and were pulling back in about 6:30! Tom and I were exhausted after all that fresh air! The cousins introduced Owen to a new video game…and Katie had to sit there, too!
Then Owen was building with Nick’s Legos, and I heard one of the girls say that Owen builds such cool things! 🙂
Then it was time for Frozen! All the kids were enjoying it!
Our last night at Gramma and Grandpa’s house
After the group photo, he commandeered the tripod to use as a cannon…and then actually as a tripod and was pretending to take pictures.
Sitting by the fire!
Not a bad spur of the moment family picture!
Making s’mores!
Eating s’mores—or in Katie’s case, eating the chocolate bar off the graham cracker.
Napping Buddies
Really? This is a thing now? It never has been before.
And it wasn’t the first time because earlier that day I’d seen kitty prints on the front of the refrigerator…
Happy window kitties
It’s gorgeous today so we’ve opened the windows! The cats are loving it! (We are, too—we’re just not sitting in the windows!)
Who’s going to break their neck first?
This is where Charlie has taken to laying. She NEVER laid on the steps like this in any of our past houses. I’m taking bets as to who will step on her first and fall and break our neck.
A late night for us
Tom rolled in about 12:05 and we immediately started unloading the car. (We wanted the car empty since he’d have to park elsewhere with the U-haul since these driveways are so ridiculously short.)
Then we got the cats situated in their temporary overnight room (the utility room downstairs)…
And by the time we got in bed and chatted for a bit, it was 1:30. We knew the kids would be up early…so wouldn’t get much sleep.
Are we having fun yet?
😐
Doing his pet duty.
He’s such a helpful boy. 🙂
