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Energy - Day 26

Weekends are so nice.  It's nice to be able to catch up on much needed sleep and cleanup.  It's all cleaned up now, but you should have seen the disaster of a kitchen this morning.  Of course, I'm not serious.  If I wanted you to see the kitchen, I would have snapped a photo.  Kitten pictures are considerably cuter and much less embarrassing.


Crazy Dream

I had a horribly funny and horribly scary dream last night.  If you didn't guess, it was kitten related.  Also, poop related (surprised?).  So, here it goes.

I was in some kind of public building.  An office?  A school?  Wherever I was, I wasn't home, and it was some general area I wasn't familiar with.  Phoenix was with me and he needed to go to the bathroom.  So I started helping him, and he started pooping, and it was a nice formed poop.  Fantastic!  Until it didn't stop and accelerated.  In estimated dream measurement units, I'd say it was at least 40 feet long, and had gone up to the ceiling and all over the place.  Since I was out in this public area, I started panicking looking around for things to cleanup this monumental disaster.  When I came back to check on Phoenix, he was severely dehydrated (basically mummified).  And as I switched to panicking about not having milk and debating whether or not I could give him water, I ended up waking up.

Back to Reality

Today has been good.  Phoenix is staying up for a bit longer now and exploring and engaging with me.  He's starting to play a bit more, and I am continually struck by the the following thought:

"How can you be this cute?!"

I mean, I'll be the first to tell you that he was not much of a cutie when we first got him.  I think I used the term "endearing but also not endearing at all" to describe him the first couple of days.  But look at him now?  My heart is melting.


On a more practical note, I was trying to check out his teeth today.  He's got his little incisors in the front, and he's also starting to get his canines!  In general, the order of teeth would be incisors, canines, then the pre-molars.  So these are all great signs.  You can kind of see them in the photo below!


Videos

Seems like I decided today would be a video heavy day.  So here you go - a bunch of different videos from today!

Look at how flexible he is!

Late night playing.  This was around 4am.

Little guy looking around.

For someone so chatty, he sure knows the right time to stay silent 😂 (wait... did my emoji just italicize?)

I think I may have scared him with over enthusiastic playing.

Food time!

He was frozen 😂

I'm probably going to have to up my "ouch" game so that a little terror doesn't grow up into a big terror.  But... 😍

Crinkle ball!

Resisting sleep... and trying oh so hard.  I had to zoom in to get this one, so the quality isn't so great, but these days, if I get too close, he pops awake again.

Give Me a Caption

My husband has asked me to do this on some other photos, and today I've decided to oblige, because I think this photo is just to fantastic.  So here we go!  We'd love to hear what you would caption the following photo.  Leave us a comment and let us know!






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