Cat Show with Meme

A few weeks ago my sister-in-law Tara and my niece Jade invited Meme and I to join them at the cat show.  I have never been to anything like this before.  It was fun and the cats were crazy, but wow not good for the allergies.  We saw some really cool cats and I think we met the actual "Cat Lady".  She had 7 cats in the show, she travels all over the Country in her van with her cats going to shows.  Is there really money in this?  I guess if you really have a passion for that lifestyle, your cats are your kids, you will do what it takes to help them (her) achieve their (her) goals.

We saw the "World's Longest Cat" measuring in at 48 1/2 inches long, yep there is actually a worlds longest cat, I would have never guessed.

Meme and Jade's favorite was a baby "Bengal" his name was Pee-Wee

Tara and I voted for a 9 month old boy "Pixiebob"

This is fatty, well at least that's what we called him.  He is a Persian weighing in at only 18 lbs.  He looks way bigger, she said it's all his hair that makes him look fat.  We say "it's just the baggy pants, or the sweater that makes us look fat"  not the fact that the cat wouldn't even stand on the judging table he just laid there.

There were so many breeds of cats, some I have never heard of before.  These 2 are Norwegian Forest Cats, they are not fully matured and do not stop growing till they are 5.  These brothers are almost 1 and not fixed yet.  HUGE CATS!!!

So there you go another story from my "Life With Yarnell Kids"  Meme, that was a good day!
I LOVE YOU GIRL!

Just in case you are interested here is the list of breeds that were at the cat show.
Abyssinian, American Shorthair (hairless), Balinese, Bengal, Birman, British Shorthair (hairless), Burmese, Chartreux, Cymric, Devon Rex, Egyptian Mau, Exotic Shorthair (hairless again), Himalayan, Household Pet (random barn cats you can pick up at a feed store or on Craiglist, or in other words my favorite kind), Japanese Bobtail, Maine Coon, Norwegian Forest Cat, Oriental, Persian, Pixiebob, Ragboll, Scottish Fold, Selkirk Rex, Siamese, Siberian, Somali, Sphynx, Toyger and Turkish Van.

Cookie Monsters are good at Fighting!

Little Nick is a crazy little guy, the clown of the family.  Brian and I were watching the Star Wars Family Guy Episode "Something, Something, Something Dark Side" the other night.  Nick came down stairs and climbed up on the couch with us.  We were at the part where Luke is out in the snow and the the snow monster gets him.  In the Family Guy version the snow monster is the cookie monster.

After Luke wakes up hanging upside down, Nick says in a totally serious and impressed voice "Wow, Cookie Monsters are good at Fighting!"

If this story makes no sense to you, clearly you were not a teenager in the early 80's and have not seen Empire Strikes Back enough times.

Good to go

Teaching little kids (or big) about the importance of hygiene and germs is not an easy task.  I'm not really sure why but being clean is not very high on the priority list if you are under the age of 15.

I have to bride my boys to take a shower more than once a week.  Do children not understand that it takes just as long to stand in the shower and pretend to get clean as it does to actually get clean.

Washing your hands after going to the bathroom seems like a given, something you just do, or standing there with the water on for a few seconds is good right?

This one really bugs me, put the toothpaste on the toothbrush, rub it around with their finger, then rub their finger on their teeth and wash off the toothbrush.  Now everything should be good right, the toothbrush is wet, their breath is all minty fresh, they spit and rinsed their mouths.  Everything should be good unless mom was standing in the hallway watching the whole thing.  Now ya gotta do it all over again with moms help.

Nick is getting ready to start pre-school next year, so we are working on being a little more independent.  Putting our shoes on and taking them off, getting dressed in the morning and going potty all by himself.  These are all things he is going to need to be able to do on his own in the real word (pre-school).  We explained to him that we wash our hands after we go to the bathroom. Initially he argued that he didn't pee on his hands. So we explained that things in the bathroom are yucky, and that since he touched the toilet he has to wash his hands.  Now if we help him go pee (lift the lid and flush), he says "Since I didn't touch anything, I am good to go?"

I will be happy if we've got it all figured out by the time they move out.