The Nightwatch

 

Do you ever wonder what is going on in your children’s brains?  Every now and then, I really scratched my head wondering where they come up with this stuff.  Take, for example, the above scene.

Let’s start with the background; if you look closely, you can see part of a little head.  That’s McAwesome- comfy and cozy on the floor.  Yes, that’s right, the floor.  I wish I could tell you that he’s the only one on the floor, but, no.  Hero is sleeping on the floor as well.  I also wish I could tell you that it’s just the boys there, but, no again!  Sweetheart Girl joins her big brothers on their floor. 

And there they sleep…every night…These kids have perfectly wonderful beds, but for some reason they prefer to camp out on the floor.  Every night they pull down the blankets and pillows from their beds, and every morning (okay, almost every morning) they put them back on.  I personally think this act alone would get very old, very quickly.

I suppose I ought to start making them sleep in their beds, but they’re happy enough!  They get a full night’s sleep, they don’t seem stiff and sore the next day (young bodies!), and I figure someday, they won’t want to do this sort of thing together.  So for now, I’ve decided to let it go.

So tonight, as I walk down the hallway, I see these two animals at the doorway.  I guess I’ll have to wait till morning to ask what their purpose is:  Are they ‘guard dogs?’  Did you want Mom and Dad to think you were funny?  Maybe you were just bored?

I don’t even have to ask who did it- That has McAwesome written all over it.

Lastly, the Shrek.  *SIGH*  How this animal(?) came into our possession is a story I won’t go into now, but suffice it to say, despite my disdain for the movies, Shrek is likely to be a permanent fixture around here for a while.  This thing has been loved on, slept with, kicked around, and even chewed on by more than one kid!  It has been a crash test dummy for the boys’ made-up games, a karate sparring partner, and a good-old-fashioned punching bag.  It’s been a tea party guest and a makeshift tissue (gross!), and who knows what else poor Shrek will be in the future!? 

But, tonight, he’s the nightwatch.

Big Kitty, Little Kitties

We have kittens!  Okay, the stray cat that lives in our back yard has kittens.  Three, in fact.

We got home from our trip to Show Low Monday afternoon.  I asked Hero to let Putt-Putt in and get him some fresh water (poor dog stayed home all by himself!), and sure enough, he saw the kittens.


We went out to see them, and they were so cute!  They could not have been more than a couple hours old- if that many! 


Mama cat had made her bed on the towel bed I left for Putt-Putt, and 2 kittens were there.  One (the all-black one) was lying on the other side of the concrete porch.  We thought he was dead, but when Daddy-man picked him up, he was alive.  I'm not sure how it works, if Mama had rejected that one and kicked him out, but we put him back in the bed with his brothers/sisters.  So far, he's doing alright.


So what am I going to do with these kitties?!  I made a little bed in a box- I don't have the heart to get rid of them yet!  In 6-8 weeks, we'll try to find homes for them or take them to the shelter.  It's sooo tempting to keep one, but I do not want an outdoor cat, and I'm not willing to spend the cash on fixing and de-clawing to bring one in...


So in the meantime, I'm curious to see how things go with the kitties.  I'm hoping to do a little real-life learning with the kiddos, and I think this could be quite an experience for them!

SO CUTE!!!