Pictures

 I haven't posted pictures in a long while so here we go!

These girls are so pretty! This may have been after a walk.

I got rid of the old couch! I'm getting new floors!

We had dinner. In a restaurant! This was our first time in a restaurant in. . . I don't know, before Covid.

This was Covid. The big lie. January 6. And Snowpocolypse. It's been a lot.

Laurie's foster cat had foster kittens!

I am fully, 100% vaccinated. Oh wait, no I'm not. It's 100% two weeks after your second shot. So, I've got a week and one day to go. But close.

Oh! We're at 21 days without her knocking. We still review the rules every night. She will remind me if I forget. I don't think she sleeps through the night. One morning she was so excited and she said, I slept the whole night! So, I think she just doesn't knock.

I love this cat.

He's so handsome.

Doesn't Ruby look like Maggie in that picture? I guess Maggie wore her hair like that a lot. 

A day at the park. 

Someone left this in my mailbox. I guess a neighbor. I don't know who it's from.

These girls are sisters. They love each other.

Weirdo.

I turned the mirror around and Honey was perplexed. One of the cats freaked the eff out too.

Ruby told me, they're little four year olds and they don't know.

Ruby told me, at school,"We had a pillow fight and it was so fun we had to dance!"

It's like she's looking for the weirdest sleeping position. Oh. This day Laurie and her kids came over. At one point, Ella and Jill were fighting over what to watch on TV and Jill said, let's ask Ruby; Ruby, you pick. Ruby said, okay but I want to pick whatever you picked.

Easter. She wanted more pictures but she's naked.

Easter Day at Jeff's house. It was sooooooooo nice.

Maggie's been feeding a stray cat. We're trying to find out if it's a he or she and if he/she is fixed. I don't mind feeding him/her but I'd like to get him/her fixed if needed. So Maggie heard crunching and went to look and saw: 

Naps are my favorite weekend activity and these dumb dogs are wrestling ON me. Rude.

Ruby!

 Sleep is better. We review the new rules every night. I added explaining why sleep is so important and what she should do if she wakes up. I've been monitoring whether or not she wakes me up. So far it was three days without, one night knocking, two nights without, one with, and now two nights without. 

Last night, as I was putting Ruby to bed, she was acting strange. She told me, when I look under my bed, I'm looking for kittens. Which is feasible. Another time I checked her closet and she had locked cats in there. Then she said, go check my closet (where she usually hides contraband). And she just had that look. That look that means she has done something and she knows but there was nothing in her closet. I asked her but she kept saying she hadn't done anything. 

So, as I was leaving, she was sniffling and I remembered I had not given her allergy medicine that morning. We went to the kitchen and got her medicine and she got a napkin. Then we walk back in and under her bed is a huge bag of candy Grandpa gave us. Now she had already stolen this once so it didn't have a ton of candy left but still! She must have stolen it that morning. And! the bag was empty. I was so annoyed. I can't hide anything from her. She can undo locks and, if she can't reach something, she figures out a way to climb. She uses stools, chairs, sometimes both stacked on one another. She uses open cabinets to climb to the countertop so she can then reach. She's ridiculous!

In better news, she didn't knock last night. Or rather, she told me she did knock, but very quietly. I didn't hear it so. . . I told her stay in bed and go back to sleep like a big girl. I told her that's what Maggie does and look how big she is.