Surprise!

I can't believe it, but the cat came back today. Opossum Kitty is officially off the "lost another cat" list. Hattie is excited but also wants to know if we can still have the new kittens I told her we'd get.

Hmmm, Aaron doesn't think so but we all know that Mommy rules. We'll see how it turns out.

Child labor

Friends of mine just laugh when I tell them that Hattie loves to dust. Several want to borrow her for the day! Iz really thinks it's fun now, too. Give them a Swiffer and away they go!

Isabella loves new foods

I really can't believe that she ate this. We grilled brats the other day and I have to have sauerkraut on mine. Iz wanted to try it so I gave her a tiny piece thinking she would spit it back out. To my surprise, she signed, "More" and ate 3 handfuls!

More dance pictures

Just a couple more that my friend, Kelly took of our girls at dance class.

Ugh,not again.

We've lost another cat.

Opossum Kitty has been missing for 2 days now. She never misses a meal and is always at the patio door to greet Aaron in the morning. I told Hattie this morning that I thought she had run away. Hattie seems OK (I think) with the idea since Opossum wasn't a warm, cuddly friend. She had warmed to us in the last 2 weeks and we could go outside and play without her scurrying off to a far corner of the yard but she was never a "pick up and pet" kind of cat.

So, let me count them up....
Baby Kitty, Sylvie, Blackie, Shortcake and Opossum

5 cats in 3 years. Not looking good for any pet of the Luce Family.

I have given up on trying to post my video of Hattie at dance class. The file is just too big and it's not working. So, I'm left with the few actual photos I took before the battery on my camera quit. Kelly S. got some really good pictures but can't e-mail them to me. (Sigh) You'll just have to be satisfied with mine.

The first one is of H getting ready to do a forward roll...down a hill, I guess. The second is just some stretching. I thought it was funny that she was looking for me. They did a lot of tumbling and not much dancing the night the parents got to watch. The recital this spring will be ballet and tap with some tumbling mixed in (that's what I've heard anyway).

I'll be sure to charge my camera battery that day.