Losing their lunch

Yeah yeah....so it's been more than 2 weeks since we updated. But we have a very valid excuse. You see, we can only update when Sarah has time. Since we lack the opposable thumbs that are necessary for typing, we must wait until Sarah is available and then we dictate our blog and she types for us. And recently, there has been waaaay too much going on in our house to bother Sarah with typing our blog. Let us explain...

Humans are a sickly breed. If one gets sick, they all get sick. And this time, they all got sick. Very sick. Disgusting sick. It started with the man human. Last week he came home several days feeling icky and saying he had a fever (although...now that we think about it, we never once saw them put that thermometer in his nether-regions to take his temperature like they have to do to us and that small person). This overall feeling of grossness went on for a few days - it came and went in spurts. Then Saturday the mini-human threw up all over his Grammie. We mean BIG TIME threw up. Ok, so we weren't exactly there to see it, but we heard about it, and we are pretty sure it was massive. But after that the little guy was fine. Then, on Sunday evening, that man human had a fever of 103. That's pretty high for a person, so off to the emergency room the adults went. No, no...they didn't leave the small one with us. They took him to his Grammy's house while they were gone. An hour (and several tylenols and ibuprofens) later, the man human was diagnosed with a virus and was told it would run its course. And it sure did run its course. It practically ran all over the house and around the neighborhood and even seemingly throughout the town. Monday morning the lady human wasn't feeling so swell, and then came the explosions. The stomach bug hit her hard, and she spent the entire day hovering over the human litter box. We won't go into details here, but just let us say that it was not pretty, nor did it sound pretty. The mini-human was sent packing to stay with his Grammy so he wouldn't get sick. Monday night, the man human caught the bug. The adults were lying in their bed, each with a barf bucket conveniently located next to the bed, in case of emergency. (The human breed refuses to just spew on the floor....we don't have a problem with it). Tuesday was a little better, but both adults stayed home from work to try to recover. Tuesday night the mini-human came back home and the grown ups were so happy to see him! Wednesday Sarah was still feeling under the weather, so she stayed home another day. Parker had to go stay with his Grammie because his other Grammy had now caught the infamous virus! There was just a whole lotta puking going on!

So finally today things are back to normal. Everyone is back where they normally are - work, the sitter's house, or snoozing on the furniture (that's where we normally are). We have no pictures to share this week, because we figured you probably wouldn't be so excited about pictures of people laid up with a stomach virus. We will try to find some interesting things to take pictures of for next week's post.
Until next time...
-The cats

The Mess Hall is officially OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Our house is filthy. Yes, it is partly our fault (but can we really be blamed because nature causes us to shed ungodly amounts of hair in the spring?), but that little chunkers is really the one to blame. The Mr. and Mrs. started giving him food off a spoon this week, and boy is that child disapproving! He hasn't quite figured out yet what the heck he is supposed to do with a spoon, or if he is supposed to like the taste of the stuff that's on it. So instead of trying to swallow what is forced on him, he spits at least three quarters of it right back out onto himself and anything or anyone sitting within 12 inches of his face. And yes, we have the proof....here are some pictures of the first spoon feeding adventures.

"Are you guys kidding me?? This is NOT a funny joke!"

As of now they are only giving the little guy cereal mixed with formula or apple juice. Next week they may try to venture into Veggie Land. Oh, and they FINALLY took the 4 month pictures of the chunk. Here they are compared to the others.

In other news, Sarah's little sister Megan graduated from a place called Texas A&M University on Saturday. They had a party. We weren't invited. We are getting SICK AND TIRED of always being overlooked. Just you wait...one of these days we will puke on the carpet enough times that someone will FINALLY start taking us seriously....yeah, one of these days....

Until next time,

Los Gatos

Growing like a weed

Here we go again...being forced to take time out of our busy schedules to write about life in our house. Don't these people know that grooming, sleeping, and eating are MUCH more important than keeping everyone informed about what that little noise box is up to now??? For example, here is what we were doing when Sarah came and told us it was time to update the blog...can't she tell we are EXTREMELY busy??Anway....here's what's been going on lately. Parker turned 4 months old on Saturday. Who cares? We turned 6 years old last month and no one so much as gave us a little kitty treat, or perhaps even a little play mouse (you know, the kind with the real mouse fur...we love those things!) But like we say over and over again, we don't matter anymore. Can't you see the looks of desperation in our eyes in the picture up there?

Parker had his 4 month check up on Monday and that kid is just a monster. He is now tipping the scales at 19 pounds and is 26 1/4 inches long. The doctor said that he's in the 95th percentile for both weight and length, whatever that means. After a thorough inspection everything else with the kiddo was perfect. We hear that then it was shot time. We don't like shots, so we can only imagine that the mini-human wouldn't like them either. He fussed a little bit when they got him home, but for the most part he has just been his usual self. The doctor said that the grown up humans can start giving the baby human some "solid" foods now, we guess that means they are going to start giving him some of our cat food. Once again, we fall by the wayside. Look for pictures in upcoming posts of the first "spoon-feeding" encounters...

We know we promised Parker's 4 month monkey pictures, but the grown ups are procrastinators like we are, so they haven't exactly taken it yet. We will force them to do it so we can post it next week.

In the meantime, please enjoy some pictures of the 2 most glamourous creatures ever to walk the face of the earth...

Me in my "gimme some lovin" position.

Where's Lexi?.............................HERE I AM!!

The evil death glare....................and helping rock Parker to sleep.

Ok, so maybe not EVERYONE will think that we are the most glamourous creatures on the face of the earth, but those people are fools! Just to please our faithful readers, we will throw in a couple pictures of that little Chunker for good measure. We aim to please.

Parker with his new favorite - Barney............. Parker in his new seat.

Ok, enough for now. Stay tuned next week for adventures in spoon feeding...

-The cats