Oh, Sleeping Beauty!

I went out into the backyard and Sleeping Beauty was all darting out the door, so I was like, fine, I'll bring him back in in a minute.  We do let him out sometimes while we are out there, but then bring him back in. Anyway, I forgot about him.  Completely forgot about him.  That happened yesterday about four thirty or five.  And when my friend came over for dinner with her two year old, I kept thinking it was strange that our friendly cat wasn't out trying to lick the two year old or something.  After my friend left and Molly went to bed we went out to water the garden and that's when I remembered.  I know cats usually come back and I wasn't really worried, but I just wanted him to come back before Molly got out of bed.  It's her cat after all, and I lost him. I kept saying to myself, "Freerange Kitties, Freerange Kitties."

For a couple hours I felt like a very bad mom.  Like the time we forgot to go enroll Molly for Pre-K.  We just totally forgot.  Or like when I was pregnant with Molly, and I let my fish die because I was too busy throwing up and working overtime to clean his bowl out.   So, I felt real bad, and hoped I wouldn't have to tell Molly.

He was hiding in the green beans this morning, but he ran under the neighbor's house.   We had to coax him out.  And then Mike told Molly about it after she got up.  I think she's mad at me.  But she spends a lot of time being mad at me, so you know. 

Sleeping Beauty Likes to Chew on Boxes!

I've been sweeping up little pieces of cardboard since Christmas.

Innocence

Look at this crazy, innocent face.  What the hell?  This is what this face says to me: "What?  What did I do?"  And I bet everyone looking at his picture would say, "Oh, he's so cute."  But he hasn't tried to get under the covers with you and your husband just to see what you're doing under there.  (OMG! It was so cold, and we couldn't stop laughing!)  Then there's all the broken glass. And the dirty paw prints because he keeps digging in my plants.  My poor plants are lucky to be alive.

 Slept late again.  Got to get back to work!

Sleeping Beauty

Here is the newest member of our family. We found him at PetSmart and adopted him yesterday for Molly's birthday present.
His name is Sleeping Beauty.  He's very sweet. Our other cat, Charlie, has yet to warm up to him completely though.  And he already broke a lampshade.  :)