Happy Birthday Chloe!
Saturday, September 26, 2009
happy birthday to you!
A year ago on September 25, 2008 my sister had her second baby girl. Today we had a party and celebrated her first birthday! Here are some pictures from the past year and a few from the party today.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
everybody wants to be a cat
We have a new addition at our house. If you have known me for a long time, then you know that I have never had a pet before, so this has been quite an experience. Get ready for story time and meet Mr. Swarley.
This has been one interesting kitty adoption. It started when we got back from our trip to the Riviera Maya. I kept noticing a gray cat hanging around our house. The neighbor girls next door (they are about 9-12 years old) would play and pet the cat like it was theirs. Then our other neighbor asked them who's cat it was, and they did not really give a straight answer.
This cat kept coming around and would lay outside in front of Bob's truck. Then one evening the cat was meowing at the door and my compassionate husband said the cat looked hungry, so he fed the cat some people food. After talking it over we decided we could give this kitty a home. It was ten o'clock at night and we made a Wal-mart run to go buy kitty litter and some food.
The cat came into our house just fine. He was really calm, friendly, and seemed to be already trained with a litter box. I feel safe assuming that he probably was somebody's cat at one time and he probably got dumped in our neighborhood.
The only thing was, we could not get our new cat to stay in the house. Any time we would leave or sometimes late at night he would want out. We would let him go and sure enough, in less than 24 hours he'd be back. It seemed like our house was just a place to sleep and eat for him.
For a while we did not have a name for him. Finally, we decided to name him Swarley. This name comes from the show "How I Met Your Mother". The character Barney goes to a coffee shop and they wrote his name on his cup, but they put Swarley. For the rest of the episode all of his friends keep calling him Swarley and it drives him nuts. We also decided to name the cat Swarely because we felt like we were being used by him, kind of like the character Barney from the show and how he takes advantage of women.
Then one day we let him out like usual and he came back with a female friend. This is where we drew the line. I did not want to let him and his friend in my house. I was not going to risk her having a litter of kittens on our floor.
So Swarley went away, for a little bit. He would come back and meow and Bob would feed him food outside. We have been feeding him for two weeks now, but he would come and meow and not eat. It looked like he wanted back in.
Yesterday, my mom came to drop something off and she opened the door and he ran right in! I put him back outside. Then that evening after we got back from dinner we decided to let the cat back in since it's been wet and rainy lately. We are going to try to let him stay with us and let him come and go as he pleases.
With winter coming I'm guessing he will not be a fan of being stuck outside in the cold. So this cat is ours for now unless somebody comes looking for him.
Or if anybody out there would like to adopt him let us know.
This has been one interesting kitty adoption. It started when we got back from our trip to the Riviera Maya. I kept noticing a gray cat hanging around our house. The neighbor girls next door (they are about 9-12 years old) would play and pet the cat like it was theirs. Then our other neighbor asked them who's cat it was, and they did not really give a straight answer.This cat kept coming around and would lay outside in front of Bob's truck. Then one evening the cat was meowing at the door and my compassionate husband said the cat looked hungry, so he fed the cat some people food. After talking it over we decided we could give this kitty a home. It was ten o'clock at night and we made a Wal-mart run to go buy kitty litter and some food.
The cat came into our house just fine. He was really calm, friendly, and seemed to be already trained with a litter box. I feel safe assuming that he probably was somebody's cat at one time and he probably got dumped in our neighborhood.
The only thing was, we could not get our new cat to stay in the house. Any time we would leave or sometimes late at night he would want out. We would let him go and sure enough, in less than 24 hours he'd be back. It seemed like our house was just a place to sleep and eat for him.
For a while we did not have a name for him. Finally, we decided to name him Swarley. This name comes from the show "How I Met Your Mother". The character Barney goes to a coffee shop and they wrote his name on his cup, but they put Swarley. For the rest of the episode all of his friends keep calling him Swarley and it drives him nuts. We also decided to name the cat Swarely because we felt like we were being used by him, kind of like the character Barney from the show and how he takes advantage of women.
Then one day we let him out like usual and he came back with a female friend. This is where we drew the line. I did not want to let him and his friend in my house. I was not going to risk her having a litter of kittens on our floor.
So Swarley went away, for a little bit. He would come back and meow and Bob would feed him food outside. We have been feeding him for two weeks now, but he would come and meow and not eat. It looked like he wanted back in.
Yesterday, my mom came to drop something off and she opened the door and he ran right in! I put him back outside. Then that evening after we got back from dinner we decided to let the cat back in since it's been wet and rainy lately. We are going to try to let him stay with us and let him come and go as he pleases.
With winter coming I'm guessing he will not be a fan of being stuck outside in the cold. So this cat is ours for now unless somebody comes looking for him.
Or if anybody out there would like to adopt him let us know.
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