Author: allycat143

so there is a post on our community forums about someone missing a cat (but no picture). i see a cat that looks as described out by the playground so i nabbed it in case it is the missing cat. only now im really regretting it, and not just because it clawed up my face when i tried to carry it back to the house. now im all worried that it isn’t the right cat and i stole someone else’s cat. i only planned to keep it for a day and if the lady hasn’t contacted me back by then, letting it go again. a) it has a green collar on and the ad didn’t mention a collar. b) im not really comfortable keeping a strange cat in my house. it is currently locked in the guest room away from my other cats, but that could still cause all kinds of problems. c) the person’s facebook account doesn’t look frequently used, so how do i even know if she’ll get my msg anytime soon? so now i’m thinking i should just go ahead and let it go. it probably isn’t even the missing cat, i’ll probably not hear back from her for a week, and itll probably cause a bunch of issues in my house. BUT what if if i go ahead and let it go and tomorrow she is all like “omg that is my cat! you found it!”

update: paul took pix of the cat down to the house of the person, and they weren’t home. i also noticed when taking pix that the color was slightly off and so were the markings ( i didn’t see any white on its face). so, i decided it wasn’t the missing cat and released it back into the wild.

update 2: so when i tried to heard the not-missing-but-stolen cat out the backdoor, apparently Booda escaped the house. he didn’t come when i fed him at night or come out any of the times i called him. i tried looking around for him outside, but by this time it was dark. i thought abby would be able to locate him, but there was a neighborhood cat in our front yard so i couldn’t tell if booda was around as well. i finally had to give up and went to bed. this morning booda was still missing. paul suggested that i look for him with abby inside. so i went looking around the house and found him curled up in the very back corner under our front porch. as soon as he saw me he started creeping towards me, looking all around for dogs or other stray cats. he let me carry him back into the house and the second i opened the back door he lept from my arms like “omg im home!”

i was clearing out old emails, and i found where i had emailed myself a funny. don’t know that i ever posted it, so i’ll post it here. it looks like we were probably in Tennessee at the time based on the date and subject.

well today we are going to give potty training a bit of a go. we got his big boy underwear in the mail last week and i put them on him just now. he is also sitting in my lap at the moment, so this could end badly.

last weekend dad built lucas this awesome thomas the train table (they retail for $200!) and brought it over. we got him a train track set and he has been loving it. thank you dad!!

he commonly says 4 word sentences now, and as always picks up new words easily and quickly. he is learning to count, “1, 2, 3, 5” and can tell you how old he is. he can identify numbers 0-9 and occasionally letters (or at least that it is a letter even if he doesn’t get the right one). he understands about taking turns and sharing pretty well. he seems to remember people now. he saw a picture of Rachel when i was scrapbooking and named her, even though he hadn’t seen her or heard her talked about in 3 or 4 months.

ive started letting him watch tv occasionally. i keep a couple eps of Thomas and Sesame St on my DVR for when i need to get him out of my hair and he actually sits there the whole time and watches it. not sure if that is good or bad.

he got his dragon costume for halloween and he actually likes wearing it (unlike the last two years). he gets to wear it to gymboree the week of halloween and also to both the gymboree halloween party and the neighborhood halloween party. we will also go trick-or-treating this year now that he is old enough. we’ll just do a few houses, though.

he hasn’t been napping for awhile now. he was really cranky yesterday so i did put him down then and he slept from 2-4, but that is the first time in like a week that we even bothered to put him in his room at naptime.

he’s inherited my ability to sniff out sweets, and found the Crunch bars i had stashed in a kitchen drawer under the towels. he spotted a cookie on my desk last night and came up with various devious measures to get at it, including asking me to go find a toy for him (that he already knew where it was) so that i would leave the desk and he could get at the cookie.

things i’m supposed to remember to write down that lucas has said over the past few weeks;

– i was heating food in the microwave and went into the office while waiting. the microwave went off and lucas ran in to find me and said, “food’s ready!”
– if you ask him who is in mommy’s tummy, he replies with “cookie monster!” (he’s not wrong)

there were at least two more of those i was supposed to remember, but of course i dont

im standing at the window looking at paint samples when paul and lucas start cracking up laughing. i turn around and ask what’s so funny to paul, but it takes him a second to answer b/c he is laughing. i turn further around to look at lucas and realize he has been standing behind me squirting me in the ass with a water squirter! (i didnt feel it b/c i had jeans on)