Cats can't howl past 9 pm

Samuel's class learned about odd laws from around the country. They each got to choose one to write a story about how that law came about. Samuel chose a Columbus, GA law, which states that cats are not allowed to howl past 9 o'clock pm.

"One day in Columbus, Georgia, a group of reble cats got the idea of howling at 10:00 p.m. Every night it sounded like a nuke was going to hit. Everyone complained. One day the mayor got sick of it and because of the noise; went crazy. The next mayor made a law that cats can't howl after 9:00 p.m. 2 years later the cat rebelion made peace with the humans but kept the law as a cymbal of peace."

I kept his spelling and punctuation. He also drew a picture with a cat and a human shaking their paw and hand, respectively.

Signs, signs, everywhere are signs

One of the toilets got clogged. Yuck. I was in the middle of making dinner when the kids told me about it. I wasn't about to fix it right then, so the girls took it upon themselves to put up warning signs. Elisa put up the expected sign: "Out of order." Later on, when I finally had a chance to fix the problem, I saw that Rachel had also put up a sign that was supposed to read: "Who did it? Rachel did it! Meow!" But Rachel is in kindergarten and sounded out the words she didn't know. Plus, she still mixes up her b's and d's. Her sign actually read: "ho bib it? Rachel bib it! meow!" Have I mentioned that Rachel thinks of herself as a cat?

Not afraid of cat food, eh?

The poll results are in - and it was a three way tie (each with two votes): something gooey, anything furry and a lego are all officially things you do not want to find in your shoes - for full disclosure, I do have to say that I have found all of these in my shoes.


Not too impressed with cat food? It's worse than you think, honestly - it leaves a cat food smell and residue after it's been put in your shoe for the up-teenth time :P I'll be happy to show you guys the next time we come to visit. There really is nothing like taking off your shoes after a long day of work to a whiff of cat-food and feet, not saying furry things are fun to find in your shoes. It is cute when you find little shoes in your shoes though :)

Feel free to check out the next post, as soon as I put it up.

-Dom

Isy got it!

I made a cat toy for Casey today, just a string shredded from an old t-shirt fastened to a stick (like a cat fishing pole). She loved it, but got annoyed when her toy was monopolized by a cute little blond 2 yr old, who would happily exclaim "Isy got it!" whenever she caught the cat toy. She was very proud of herself, and wanted a turn, during which she almost hit Rachel in the eye.

I didn't realize I was making a cat & 2yr old toy at the time, but it was fun playing with both of them.

She just came in and asked if the cat fishing pole is hers "Ommy, is dat mine?" because she wanted to show it to her brother who just came home from preschool.


-Dom