Squirt and the manila folder

I apologize for another cat post. I'm really not a crazy cat lady. At least I haven't started wearing kitty cat sweaters...yet.

Anyway...

Squirt regularly annoys me when I'm trying to work on the computer and usually tries to lay across the keyboard like this...


So the other day when I was trying to get some work done he jumped up on the desk as usual but instead of going for the keyboard he eyed the folder next to the monitor. He opened it up with his nose and pushed out all of my papers.



Then he settled into the manila folder and tried to get comfy.


This wasn't comfy...


...but this was.


I guess it was just the site of an overweight cat so determined to fit in a folder that was so amusing to me. Dumb, I know.

Squirt & the butter box, part 3

The black cat has been curious about all the excitement with the box and finally tried it out herself. She likes it. It makes Squirt jealous.


The butter box is almost completely gone on the two sides. We need to turn it around and see if Squirt will start chewing on the other sides. But I almost think he's been chewing it down like this on purpose. I think he has a plan for just exactly how he wants his box to end up.


Fat and happy...

Random Andy Quotes

The other day I was looking through some of the piles of paper that have accumulated in the office and I came across a small collection of scratch papers with funny Andy quotes on them. You know, when your kid says something cute, and you write it down on whatever you can find so you don't forget. I'm so glad these didn't get thrown out accidentally. Unfortunately not all are dated but they're fun nonetheless. Here are some of them.

04/08/2005, age 4. Tim called from work and we were talking. Andrew picked up the phone in the other room and said "Hi". His daddy asked, "What are you doing?". Andrew answered matter of factly, "I'm talking to you."

08/15/2005, age 4. "Tomorrow I want to be bigger...yeah, I want to be taller."

08/15/2005, age 4. "I want to grow up to be a white kitty cat."

08/19/2005, age 4. "Momma, I'm going to be small today." (first thing he said waking up in bed).

Not dated: We were sitting around the table playing a board game with my parents. Andrew pointed at each of us individually and said first to me, "That's a star", then to Papa Harold, "That's a moon", then to Grandma Sue, "That's a sky", then he pointed to his daddy and said, "That's a toilet paper."

Not dated: Andrew was spending the night with his cousins and his grandma. He popped awake in the morning, seemed really relieved about something, and very jubilantly said, "I'M ALIVE!"

02/25/2007 age 6. "When I grow up like a human, I can work there." (as we drove by his grandma's place of employment.)

08/07/2007, age 6. I was cropping a picture of me and Andrew riding the waverunner on the lake, a dreaded bathing suit picture. I was trying to crop my arm out of the picture because it looked fat. Andrew asked what I was doing and I told him I was trying to get my fat arm out of the picture. He said, "It's not a fat arm, it's just getting old."

08/07/2007, age 6. Editing more pictures. I'm not sure what picture this was in reference to but he said..."mom, you look aweful in that picture."

03/01/2009, age 8. "I wonder what the Chinese are doing right now."

Mr. Bean

We had a horrible nights sleep last night. All thanks to Mr. Bean.

Tim loves Mr. Bean. I'm not nearly the fan that he is. Tim has been craving Mr. Bean lately and decided to introduce Andrew to him. So they got on You Tube last night and watched clip after stupid clip of Mr. Bean. I had better things to do with my time and left the boys to do their thing. I smiled at each belly laugh that erupted from the computer room.

Then it was time for bed and we did our normal night time routine. As Tim crawled into bed he mentioned that Andrew thought Mr. Bean was really funny at first but then he started to "creep" him out. I was like 'oh great'. I know how Andrew gets when something creeps him out. Sure enough we didn't sleep at all last night because Andrew kept waking up with Mr. Bean nightmares. (No, I have no idea what a Mr. Bean nightmare would consist of). Being the gracious wife that I am, I just laid in bed and let Tim deal with the freaked out 8 year old all night long - it was, after all, his fault. (I know, I'm a terrible woman). Finally, Andy ended up in bed with us, which is always great because he emits so much heat when he sleeps that steam rolls off of him. And the last time he came into bed with us during a night of nightmares I got slapped...HARD. Andrew was slapping a bad guy in his dream and didn't realize that I got the brunt of it in real life. So I've learned when Andrew's mind is going wild in the night you don't really want to be too close to him. Luckily, I didn't get beat up last night but we sure didn't sleep well. Who would have known Mr. Bean could have such an impact.

Valentines Day

I'm just now finishing up getting all my programs loaded back on the computer and realized the computer was down over Valentines and I hadn't posted anything.

It was really no big deal. Tim and I aren't the goopy romantic types. But we did decide that whatever we ate that day had to be heart shaped. This was our dinner:


Andrew and I made a big heart shaped cookie. He wanted to leave it as is, no adding red hots or anything to make it red. This kid likes things basic.


Then we made one of our family favorites, homemade pizza. Of course we had to make those heart shaped too. One pepperoni and cheese, just the way Andy likes it, and one with pepperoni and lots of veggies for me and Tim.



This is about as 'into' Valentines Day as we get. But it was fun. Maybe we'll make it a tradition.

Irksomeness Finds Happiness

It's sad how plugged in we are these days. My computer pooped out on me and left me for a week with hardly a thing to do but mope around and sometimes spout a naughty word at my hard drive. Thanks go out to my computer savvy bro Aaron who put up with my annoying phone calls for help. Even he, the genius of the family, was stumped and I resorted to wiping out my operating system to start anew. Luckily I was able to get into safe mode and back everything up beforehand.

Anywho, I've been really bored this past week without my beloved internet. No offense to my sister and her fam damily, whom we visited on Monday. That was fun. Other than that short stint of happiness, I had no idea what to do with my spare time. How pathetic.

This past week has made me realize that I need a project badly! Fortunately, just before my computer went haywire I purchased a vinyl cutter online which is now in my hot little hands. I've been wanting one for several years. Now I will be in project mode from here on out. YiPpEe! Don't tell Tim. He still doesn't know I bought one. Even though it's been sitting right here on the desk for 4 days. I figure it'll take him at least two more weeks to notice it. And then he'll ask me the dreaded question of how much it cost. We normally discuss large purchases together before the purchase actually takes place but to be honest I got a little carried away on ebay one night with the adrenaline and all...and accidentally won it. Aaahhhh, it is what it is! My sister's got a friend who'd like me to sell my little crafty doo-dads in her store when they open up in a couple more months so hopefully I can bring in a little dough with my new gadget. I'm going to pick me up some wood today, put on my sexy protective goggles and fire up the miter saw and start making some lovely vinyl signs. I love working in the shop - actually it's an over-crowded garage with a smelly cat box in the corner but someday I'm going to have a beautiful shop. Someday...aaahhh. I'm totally rambling. The moral of the story is that I really missed my computer but now I'm happy. Later.

Update

So here's an update on THE BUTTER BOX. I know this is totally pointless but we've been entertained by it.

This is about where we left off

A couple weeks later...Squirt slowed down about this time and I thought he was losing interest. Then things picked back up again.
Caught in the act

I can't find my camera but the cat is currently working on the R in BUTTER. I also kept finding the box moved over, completely covering the heat register. Naturally I blamed Andrew only to find out one day when Andrew wasn't around to blame that the cat has been moving it. Sneaky little bugger hogging all the heat.