My wife is a true sucker for baby animals. I can’t say that I don’t share her sentiment because kittens are just so cute. As she wrapped up her Christmas shopping yesterday she called me to tell me that she’d found a baby kitten in the parking lot and it was currently riding with her in the car and to not be mad.
I wasn’t mad.
So we get the kitten home and put her in a cat carrier so our cats and dogs wouldn’t destroy her. Our animals tend to roughhouse quite a bit.
We knew we couldn’t keep the poor kitten because both of our cats have FIV. Luckily, my brother was willing to take the little gal since he’s only got one cat.
He let me know today that he named her Sprocket. She is very mellow. I can already tell that we’ll be taking the kids over to visit her. Ethan and Evie were both excited that we had a baby kitten in the house. Evie called it the “Baby Bow”. Bow means cat and is pronounced “bOw” with a heavy emphasis on the O.
Life in General
animals, kids, sprocket
Since Christmas is in full swing despite it not even being Thanksgiving yet, I thought I would relay a funny Christmas story. 2 years ago we decided to buy a train for Ethan for Christmas. He wasn’t necessarily big into trains at that time, but it was a Buzz Lightyear train featuring animation and lights. He LOVED Buzz Lightyear and who wouldn’t dig a sweet train like that right?
Instead of giving it to him in a box, we decided to open it and put this thing together and make sure it worked. Luckily for us, we did this on the 23rd of December. This particular train was an absolute nightmare. The track itself took me nearly 30 minutes to assemble because I don’t think the pieces were actually meant to attach to each other.
While I assembled the track, Lauren got batteries installed in this “train” and prepped it for a quick demo. The train didn’t exactly fit on the track very well, but we figured it would spend most of its time getting knocked over anyway. Upon turning the train on, Lauren and I broke out into maniacal laughter and hysteria. The train itself was easily louder than our vacuum and seemed to be missing any type of lights OR animation. Instead, the train just poked around the track making the most god awful noise I’ve ever heard in my life.
Needless to say, we packed that piece of garbage up and returned it to Toys R Us.
The train was called the Disney Pixar Buzz & Friends Train Set and you can see a picture of it below and it appears that Sears is still selling it.
Disney Pixar Buzz & Friends Train Set
The Holidays
christmas, trains
Today wrapped up the final soccer game of the season for my little U6 YMCA team. I couldn’t be prouder of these little guys. Of the 8 kids on the team, none of them other than my son had ever played before. After only 8 weeks, they were out there playing like champs. There is something greatly rewarding about coaching sports and helping to build self confidence in these kids.
Life in General
soccer
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