Introducing Squeakie

Last week we went to Vidalia to visit family and Lucas picked out a kitten.

Yesterday my Aunt Karen brought him to live with us. Turns out he picked out a really sweet cuddly kitten.

Siren Firetruck

He promised to have good behavior for the rest of his life and to scoop the poop. Yeah, I'm a sucker. We got her from our neighbor and on the walk home she kept making these high pitch sounds like a siren.

That Darn Cat

Lucas desperately wants a kitten and loves going over to my parents house because they are currently cat-sitting for a friend.

Lucas: "Grandma, when is that black cat going to poop out some kittens?"

Grandma: "You mean birth kittens?"

Lucas: "When is that cat going to birth kittens?"

Grandma: "Well, that cat is a HE so there won't be any kittens"

Lucas: "Darn it!"

Dear Lucas (4 years and 3 Months),

Now that you are in school, time seems to have sped up even faster. I didn't think that was even possible! You've been in school for two months now and we really have our whole routine down. I drop you off at school every morning and then a few days a week I pick you up and then when I am taking care of your Great Gram your Dad picks you up. Every day you come home with some new fact or song that you learned at school. Your excitement about learning new things is so great and I'm so thankful that we were able to send you to school this year.

At the beginning of the month we went out of town and picked you up from school early. When I walked in the classroom you didn't see me so I just watched you playing during your free play time for a couple of minutes. It was really neat for me anytime I get to observe you in your school environment. You just seem so grown up and independent there. As soon as you saw me you got excited and said "Hi Mom!" and ran over to me and gave me a big hug. You do the exact same thing every time I pick you up from school and it makes me feel on top of the world.

One day a few weeks ago you came home talking about how you had a "girlfriend" at school. When I got to go on your field trip to the Pumpkin Patch this weekend I got to meet her. The two of you were pretty much inseparable. You guys had to stand in line together and sit by each other at lunch and on the hay ride. I noticed her calling you "Lukey" a few times and that cracked me up!

It was so cool getting to go on your first real field trip. (A few weeks ago you guys walked down the street to the Fire Station, so if you want to be technical that was your first field trip... but I'm not counting it because you didn't ride on and bus, and because I wasn't there.) You were so excited to get to ride on the bus and it was so neat to see you interacting with all your classmates and to get called "Lucas' Mom" all day long. Now when I pick you up from school all your friends say, "Bye Lucas! Bye Lucas' Mom!" It is pretty awesome.

Your teachers are AMAZING. You can tell they really love their job and they especially love their students and you guys really love them back. This week your school had an after school dance for all the grades. You and a few of your classmates had a ball shaking your little booties and dancing with your teacher. I volunteered to help at the dance and it was only an hour long and I was exhausted! I don't know how your teachers do it. I am pretty that teachers must be undercover Super Heroes.

You've been begging to get a pumpkin to "starve" and make into a Jack-o-lantern. I've been meaning to get a pumpkin for a while but thought we had plenty of time. Then this week, I realized that Halloween is less than a week away so we stopped and got one.

On the way home from picking out the perfect pumpkin you talking a good game about how you were going to scoop out the pumpkin. Then you were going to give him circle eyes, a triangle nose, and a crescent mouth. When it got to the part of cleaning out the pumpkin guts you totally chickened out. You were having NONE of that! So I had to scoop out the pumpkin insides while you supervised. We were going to wash and cook the pumpkin seeds until our cat jumped up on the table and started chowing down. Turns out Babies the Cat LOVES fresh pumpkin, seeds and all!

Your pumpkin turned out just like you wanted him too look. Before we started carving you took a crayon and planned out exactly how you wanted him to look. Now every night before you go to bed you have to go outside and turn on your little light in the pumpkin before you go to bed.

This week we also went to your annual playgroup Halloween party. We've gone every year since 2006 when you were just one year old. Back then you were just barely learning how to stand up on your own. Since you are in school all day during the week we really don't get to see your playgroup pals that much anymore. It was so nice to catch up with them and reminisce about how young you all were when we had our first Halloween party. Halloween is going to be SO MUCH FUN this year.

Little boo, I love you to the moon and back,

Lucas' Mommy

Babies

Our cat, Babies (who we've had for 8 years) is finally warming up to Lucas

"I Can Feel Him Singing"

Today Lucas asked if he could "pwease keep the kitten inside." He also told me that he could "feel him singing." I told him that cats lived outside and the mommy kitty would miss him to much. It seemed to work for now. At least he didn't try and sneak the kitten in the house today.

I'm sure this is total payback for that time in high school when I snuck a kitten in the house and it lived in my closet for a few days. My cover was busted when my parents heard meowing coming from my room while I was in school. Since we already had 3 cats I had to get rid of the kitten.

Can You Guess Who Snuck in the Stray Cat?

"But Mommy, I love him cause he's cute."

Lets Be Friends

Tales from the Outside

I didn't know cats were nesting animals. Now I have an excuse to NOT clean up the big piles of pine straw sitting in our yard! ;-)

The seeds that we planted last Sunday are starting to sprout!

The chives are starting to sprout too.

It's been a week and I still haven't killed the flowers, Yet!

See, the flowers in the window box are still alive too!

To Catch a Cat

Lucas still has his runny nose and congestion but it doesn't stop him from pointing at the door or window and saying "mama bye bye." Now that he actually calls me mama how can I resist not taking him outside. Plus the fresh air and sunshine are good for him.

He was bound and determined to give our outside cat a hug. After several failed attempts he decided to explore our front yard instead.

Too bad pine cones aren't as soft as unhuggable cats.