Adventures of a Maude in Training

The storm has given Harlie a major case of the cat-willies. Poor thing.

In case anyone doubted just how tolerant Ms. Harlequin is of S., here is proof of what is a multiple times a day occurrence--Harlie getting a hug:

Best Friends Forever Harlie gets lots of hugs. Lots. She is a very tolerant cat.

No, she has never bitten him and has only very minimally scratched him once when she was "playing" with him with her in-need-of-a-trim-claws retracted. We separate them when she wants to "play" rougher than we are comfortable with or when he gives her a little too much "love". We also try to be vigilant about keeping her claws trimmed.

Self,

Next time you have a child be sure to arrange for maternity leave from all your jobs, not just the one that paid you. You should be using the time the baby sleeps to sleep, not work.

Love,

Me


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In other news...

We got out for many hours today and it was nice if a bit trying. My incision has been hurting and I had some weird pain while walking around the park today. Bleah. S. does very well out and about which is good for us, though I really wish he did so well sleeping at night. Very nice evening with Big Moves folks even if I did spend most of it with a baby hanging off my boob. My back and arms are killing me.

Not much else and a whole lot else going on. It is all a blur. We're tired and run down. I've watched more bad TV in the past couple of weeks than I care to admit--of course what else am I going to do while chained to a chair nursing so many hours a day?

I seriously need to get outside tomorrow and pick some tomatoes.

And proving she is still our cat-baby, here's how I found Harlie sleeping this morning:

ptor had fallen asleep on the couch after we got up very early in the morning for a diaper change and feed and I left him there. Harlie apparently took her opportunity to claim her cat-daddy for herself.

As I have mentioned before, Harlie has a cat-friend named Rocco who visits her through our windows. Rocco is a scruffy little neighborhood cat. Recently Rocco has discovered our backyard--we have lots of birds in our backyard throughout the day which is very appealing to him. Fortunately for our birds, Rocco wears a collar with a big 'ol bell on it (we can hear him even when we are in the house and he is a block or so away). Rocco has also discovered that he can visit Harlie through the back door and back window and today he came and visited again.


It really is too cute.

I've been cleaning out closets and trying to organize stuff. Today I was working on getting my costumes organized. In the process I found a garter I've used as a costume piece. Being evil, I decided to see what it would look like on Harlie. She just tried to eat it and I didn't have the camera ready. When ptor came home I told him the story and then I had Harlie model the garter again. He got a picture with his camera phone.
( Proof we are evil cat-parents )

When Harlie purrs she vocalizes a lot and the result is pigeon-coo-like. We captured it with a phone post last night. We love our sweet kitten!

Harlie got a huge treat last night. Not only did her cat-uncle, catzen, chase her around and play with her and her paperball until she was worn out she got to sleep with cat-uncle. Oh, it was a treat unparalled for her! Usually when he stays he keeps her out of the room he's in. However, as his allergies are doing better he kept his door open and let her sleep on the bed with him. She stayed there for most the night. Sometime early this morning she moved to our (my and ptor's) bed and we woke up to her curled up between our pillows. So cute! And such a happy kitty! So much special attention just for her.

I caught Harlie in the middle of big yawn today.

ptor shared his very funny Harlie story here. I need to post the pictures of the experiment. It really was rather fuuny

In an effort to distract myself today I uploaded some new pictures and figured I'd share so there would be some pneumonia-free content:

Recent self-portrait


Peter demonstrating how a "cat-snuggly" can be used


Harlie showing off her claws