Sept 14

Heather and I are now the proud owners of a 1 year old female tabby named Sadie. Being first time cat owners, there have been a few adjustments to make. Heather has gotten three cat books, which she has been reading cover to cover because she doesn’t know much about cats, being raised with dogs and a mom who dislikes felines (The pictures are fun). We picked Sadie up from the Idaho Human Society on Monday, and after spending a day or two mostly hiding under the bed, her curiosity got the best of her and she started exploring.
Sadie likes pouncing, and biting her cat toys, and having her head scratched as well as sleeping on our bed. Last night, she playfully bit Heather’s toes while she was sleeping. Heather must’ve been dreaming and moving around and Sadie just couldn’t resist. Heather eventually tried to hiss at the devious kitty and then slept in peace. We learned that she does not care to have her back petted – supposedly if a cat isn’t petted on the back when its a kitten, it won’t care for it as an adult.
We also found out Sadie likes catnip. When she gets it, she’s pretty wild, zipping around and going nuts. Pretty funny. (Yes, we’re still working on the dosage).
I thought it was pretty funny that Heather didn’t like how quiet the cat is. Cats are known to be fairly stealthy, and carpet is a good medium to be silent. After being surprised by the cat a few times, she asked that I put Sadie’s collar on her. Now there’s a little jingling to give us warning when she’s around.
Rachel is enjoying school and playing with some of the next door neighbors. She played with the two three year old twins and a 1 ½ year old baby. It’s nice to have people close to play with.
The uncle of the kids Rachel was playing with commented on how BYU was going to get trounced by UCLA. I almost went back over to put his nose in a stunning 59-0 win over UCLA, but I decided not to.
That said, it was awesome to watch a BYU team that looked outstanding. Admittedly, UCLA handed half of the points to the Cougars, and didn’t play well at all. However, it was fun to see Bronco Mendenhall pull out the BYU starters in the third quarter so the second-stringers could play.
We also cleaned the garage, which lead to some discussions of how best to store children’s old clothing and baby stuff. No one ever told me that one side effect of babies is a huge amount of STUFF. Thank heavens for taking stuff to DI when Heather isn’t looking.
Heather here: Due to inexperience (thru no fault of his own) Craig may not realize how much mobiles, bottles, lap pads, crib sheets can add up to, so I saved them. I have also saved some stuff from when Rachel was younger like PJ’s, church dresses and pants and some shirts. Anything that I didn’t think would be in style in maybe 5 or 6 yrs was traded in to Other Mothers, a used childrens’ clothing store, in exchange for store credit. Buying everything from scratch each time you have a baby doesn’t make sense.