I keep forgetting to include this story in the blog…
Kitties…
About a week ago, Dave was up for the weekend. As you may or may not know, we are taking care of his three cats…Marvin, Buddy and Tammy. Well, Dave was on the floor playing with Avery when Buddy walked by. Now Buddy is one of those big fluffy, really long haired cats…very cute (very tempting fur). Dave was helping Avery pet the kitty and he was doing really well (Avery that is – but you were doing well too, Dave 
) until Avery grabbed two huge handfuls of Buddy’s lovely black fur from the side of his body. Buddy stoped short with this deer-in-headlights look on his face so animated that you could almost hear the thoughts in his head ‘why am I around kids?’ ‘why do they do this to me?’ ’How do I get out of here?’ So he did what any scared cat would do, Buddy ran away. You would think that would be the end of the story wouldn’t you? …Avery lets go, cat runs away, everyone happy???… Are you kidding me, really, have you met my son?
Well, instead of letting go when Buddy took off, Avery held on for dear life. Avery was sitting up when this all occurred, so when Buddy went running, Avery held on for dear life and was propelled forward onto his belly and was dragged a few inches by the kitty. VERY funny sight to see! Nobody was hurt except, of course, for the gobs of hair we had to pull out of Avery’s (soaking wet from drool) clenched fists before he could eat it. And maybe some of Buddy’s cat pride. That’ll teach him to get that close to a baby.
Gate…
We had to officially put the baby gate up this past week. He is not crawling yet, but he moves very fast doing the military crawl/jumping inchworm on his belly. He gets around very well that way, so I put the gate up so he didn’t take a tumble down the stairs. Yesterday, he got even closer to crawling, he has started ‘running’ with his knees. His hands stay in one place, but he runs in place with his knees…looks really funny. He is getting more brave by the day too, yesterday when he was on his hands and knees, I held a toy up in front of his face and he reached for it with one hand without getting off of his knees first. Of course, he fell forward when he did it, but it is a ’step’ in the right direction.
More pics…
Yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, who knows, anyway…yesterday I had him in his room playing on his blanket from Aunt Mary while I went through his clothes and toys and general stuff to see what I could pack away and what needed to come out of storage. I came across this had and I had to take a picture, ‘cuz he looked so darn cute…
I just love this little guy, he has such a personality!
All for now, until I publish this to the blog and realize I forgot another funny story.
