Well, Felix might not be happy with me for telling you this, but he was labeled “obese” at the vet last week. I have to say that shocked me a little bit. We knew he was getting to be a pretty big cat, and he does have a saggy belly that hangs down (mostly skin though), but apparently it’s bad enough that they called him “obese”! I wonder if they use the BMI scale for animals…haha. Anyway, Travis took him to the vet on Friday to get his nails trimmed (because we sure can’t clip them ourselves like we can with Gabby!), and that’s when they told him that Felix was getting too big for a cat his age. They asked Travis how much we feed the cats, and he told them 4 CUPS A DAY. No wonder they thought he was getting fat!! What Travis meant to say was 4 scoops a day…each scoop is 1/3 cup. Haha. We know that Felix definitely eats more than his fair share of the food, but it’s hard to keep him from doing that, especially when we aren’t home all the time. So, poor Felix and Gabby are on a diet now. We’ve cut them back to about 2-3 scoops a day to see if that helps any. I can tell they are hungry though because they always eat everything in their bowl and they meow for more food. We’ll see how long this lasts…
Speaking of the kitties, they’ve been in a somewhat destructive stage lately. Is that equivalent to the terrible twos? Their favorite activity as of late is chewing/shredding toilet paper. Sometimes they’ll just unroll it onto the floor, but other times we find it shredded into tiny pieces. So far this has only happened in our bathroom, so I guess they haven’t figured out that the other bathroom has TP! If this keeps up, I’m going to have to start really finding some good TP deals at the store. It’s not very economical to throw half of the roll away because the cats ripped it up! We also found shredded Kleenex on the floor the other day…they had knocked the box off the table in the living room and had some fun with the tissues inside! Anything we leave on the floor is fair game, so we’ve found trashcans knocked over (small ones), pictures frames knocked over, socks carried off to a different part of the room, etc. The other day I went to grab a Styrofoam plate out of the pantry, and I found that the bag had a huge hole in it, and several of the plates on top looked like this:
Guess we need to start leaving the pantry door shut all of the time! I had no idea that kittens could be so destructive…I thought that was a puppy thing! Guess they showed me. We’re trying to teach them not to do these things, but they’re very sneaky, and they either do it at night or when we’re not home. The squirt bottle doesn’t really work when it’s not used right after they do something wrong. Anyone have any suggestions about how to deter them from bad behavior? :)
Friday night turned out to be a very nice evening! We had a few families from church over for supper, and everything turned out pretty good! We had chicken spaghetti (thank you Mrs. Johnson for the recipe!), cheddar bay biscuits, salad, derby pie (from Mom’s cookbook) and fruit pizza (from the Pioneer Woman). The biscuits were really good…I just used milk instead of water and added some Old Bay seasoning to the batter and the butter mixture. They stuck to the parchment paper for some reason, so next time I might just spray the pan and not use the parchment paper. If you try the fruit pizza, just know that it makes a lot! Bake the sugar cookie part for 12 or 13 minutes. I did 15 minutes, and it was little dry. It’s pretty good though!! I took most of the leftovers to work, and everyone really liked it.
Mom had her first radiation treatment Monday, and it went well. I haven’t talked to her since Monday night, but I’m assuming she went back yesterday for #2. She’s supposed to go every day (except on the weekends) until she does 36 total treatments. She said it was pretty uncomfortable lying there perfectly still for an hour on Monday, but the rest of the treatments should only take 15-20 minutes. She’s almost finished!!!! Yay Mom!!
Running is going pretty well I guess. We’re just running 30 minutes on Mondays and Wednesdays and then a set number of miles on Saturdays. This Saturday we’re supposed to run 6.5 miles! Eek! We’ll see how that goes. Less than 3 months til the half marathon!!!
On Saturday, we planted the dogwood tree that Baugay gave us. Thank you, Baugay!!!! I can’t wait for it to grow and bloom (hopefully pink) flowers. She wasn’t sure if it was pink or white since she’s got both kinds in her yard. Right now, the tree is probably only 4 feet tall, but one day it will be so pretty! We planted it in our backyard near the playset. Travis did the hard part (digging the hole), so I just got to be the assistant. That’s usually the way it goes for our projects, but I like it that way! :)
Tonight is my last night of teaching the K-1 Bible class at church. I made a big crossword puzzle, word search, and fill in the blank worksheet, so hopefully that will be fun and a good review of what we learned. It was fun teaching by myself for the first time, but I’ll also be glad to have a break for a while too!
We’re planning to go to the annual Vestavia singing with RJ Stevens on Friday night. Last year was the first year we didn’t go since we started dating in 2006, so we’re really looking forward to going back this year! They always have a huge crowd! We’re planning to stay for the weekend with my parents and (hopefully) take the cats with us. Last time, that didn’t work out so well (i.e. Travis and Felix in a cat fight), but maybe we’ll have better luck this time. To get him to the vet Friday, Travis just threw a towel over him and scooped him up into the carrier and he didn’t even put up a fight. Maybe that will work two weeks in a row!
Well, I think that’s about it as far as “news” goes around here. Happy birthday (one day late) Gran!! Hope you had a great day yesterday!! Now, I’ve got to go check on the cats…they’re getting into something again…..
Hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!
