I have always had the ability to entertain myself.
I think its something that comes along with being the youngest child. When you start to lose your older siblings aka playmates (I dislike hugh hefner for making that a dirty thing) to New Kids on the Block,sports, scooters and Babysitters Club books... you learn to use your imagination very quickly.
Unfortunately for our family pets, I turned to them.
When it finally reached the point that all of my older siblings had started school and it was just me and mom at home I remember taking our cat Sammy in my bedroom with me. I would try to dress him up and put him in my pink and green plastic stroller, which was a difficult task as you can imagine. I remember my mom calling me for lunch and being afraid that if I let Sammy go that I may not be able to find him again once I was done eating. So I would lock him in my room. After I finished my lunch I would get distracted with some other activity or toy and completely forget that pour Sammy was still in my bedroom. This exact situation happened nearly everyday.
My love for cats (animals in general) started at a young age and I believe the dislike animals feel for me started around the same time.
About a month ago I was looking through some old family pictures and I laughed out loud when I found several ones of me holding different cats. I can think of at least 2 or 3 home videos where my siblings are dancing or just playing infront of the camera and I am in the background chasing after a cat. I remember another particular video of my mom recording my sister outside and she was singing for the camera(we have a lot of those) and you see me walk up to my mom crying rubbing my arm. I had just gotten scratched by a cat. I think I cried for about a minute before I started chasing it again.
I think its something that comes along with being the youngest child. When you start to lose your older siblings aka playmates (I dislike hugh hefner for making that a dirty thing) to New Kids on the Block,sports, scooters and Babysitters Club books... you learn to use your imagination very quickly.
Unfortunately for our family pets, I turned to them.
When it finally reached the point that all of my older siblings had started school and it was just me and mom at home I remember taking our cat Sammy in my bedroom with me. I would try to dress him up and put him in my pink and green plastic stroller, which was a difficult task as you can imagine. I remember my mom calling me for lunch and being afraid that if I let Sammy go that I may not be able to find him again once I was done eating. So I would lock him in my room. After I finished my lunch I would get distracted with some other activity or toy and completely forget that pour Sammy was still in my bedroom. This exact situation happened nearly everyday.
My love for cats (animals in general) started at a young age and I believe the dislike animals feel for me started around the same time.
About a month ago I was looking through some old family pictures and I laughed out loud when I found several ones of me holding different cats. I can think of at least 2 or 3 home videos where my siblings are dancing or just playing infront of the camera and I am in the background chasing after a cat. I remember another particular video of my mom recording my sister outside and she was singing for the camera(we have a lot of those) and you see me walk up to my mom crying rubbing my arm. I had just gotten scratched by a cat. I think I cried for about a minute before I started chasing it again.
As a family we have a had a LOT of cats in our days.
We have 3 right now. My mom doesn't like all 3 cats to be in one room at the same time...she thinks it makes us look like those crazy cat people that are probably hiding 10 more in the next room (we aren't by the way).
Do you know of or remember the movie Oliver & Company?? This scene has ALWAYS reminded me of myself.
Would you find that funny or weird if I told you that I sing this song to my cats sometimes?
The whole inspiration for this post is that today is Jack & Stellas birthday.
They are 1 year old today
(P.S. normally I would not remember my pets birthdays, but today is also my real life best friends birthday--shout out to Sister Raney!)
Jack & Stella
As you can tell I *still* like dressing them up. Isn't it amazing how even animals can look annoyed??
"Im too old for this..."-jack
"worst.birthday.ever."-stella
3 comments:
oh my gosh. HA HA HA!!!!!!! That picture is great of you!!! I can hear that song from your title in my head. You are most definitely an animal lover like mom. When I was little, cats were something we had to hide from Dad.
And are you KIDDING me that you made them birthday hats??? You are AWESOME. Those are hilarious and you are right --- taht is totally what they are saying.
SOOOOO funny!
HAHAHAHA!!!! Tyler and I are cracking up at this. I am just DYING that you made them birthday hats hahahah! Those poor kitties. I can imagine you saying those quotes by them in your funny voices that you do! HAHA I just love you, Cort!
hahaha...I didn't make those hats for THEM--even though I wouldn't put it past me. I had made them for our Relief Society birthday celebration and didn't have the heart to throw them away. So if either one of you have a girl, I have about 20 adorable music note birthday hats for a party.
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