Happy Birthday, Roxie!

Well, I'm happy to report that today is my birthday!  We decided it was only fair to do the same thing with me that we did with Josie and that is to back into my birthday according to the age the vet told my mom was she adopted me.  They told her I was about 8 weeks old, and she brought me home in early January, so we are choosing today to celebrate my birthday!  I'm so excited I can't stand it!

Of course, Mom has choir tonight, so we spent last night playing and celebrating, and she's gonna love on me and play with me more when she gets home tonight.  I wanted to share all of the birthday fun we had last night though and fill everyone in on what we did!  It was so much fun - to me, anyway!

Mama got home last night and told us we weren't going to work on luncheon stuff at all, that we were ONLY going to play and celebrate me!  Well, you know I was all about that!  Mama got out all of the fun stuff and we made me a fun birthday card:

Mama then showed me a new shirt she got me for my birthday!  I think I'm going to have to share it with Josie on her birthdays, too, but that's okay.  (I wouldn't say this to Mama because I don't want to hurt her feelings, but I wish she had gotten a bigger size.  This one kinda makes it look like I have big hips and a wide behind!  See what you think...??!!)

"Josie's such a good sister.  Here she's giving
me a little birthday kiss!"

"See, don't you think my hips and behind look
big here?  Just remember, my fur is getting
thick because it's about to get cold
outside, so that's part of the problem!"

"I can't be sure, but I think Josie is thinking 'Uh oh!  Am
I going to have to wear that contraption on my birthday,
too??'"

Then, she pulled out a pack of my very favorite toys!  All of mine that I play with now are all bent out of shape and wadded up in little balls like the blue one in one of the pictures above (they're only covered pipe cleaners, so that happens easily - kinda like the Velveteen Rabbit when it got loved on so much!).  Anyway, she gave me a brand new pack of those, which I LOVED and could not wait to get my paws on!!!

THEN, we did something we've never done before - something really SUPER fun!  For Josie's birthday, Mom bought a book titled something like '50 Games to Play with Your Cat.'  Well, one of those things was blowing bubbles, so Mom, being as cool as she is, bought some bubble stuff and we sat in the floor for a while and played with those!  The stuff in the bottle didn't work so great or blow so many bubbles at first, but my mom is so smart that she put some Dawn Dishwashing Liquid in there and shook it up!  It worked a LOT better then!  It was so much fun blowing and popping bubbles, but I had a hard time trying to decide where they went when they hit the ground!  Some landed on me, too, and didn't bust, so that was kinda weird!  Here's me playing with the bubbles.  It was SOOO much fun!

"I am trying to figure out how Mom makes those
bubbles happen here!  I still never could get
it to work!"

"This one looks like it's balancing on my nose!"

"Josie, in the background, didn't think it was so
much fun.  She was horrified actually, and
trotted her little self far, far away.  She did
crouch and watch, though!  That was fine
with me though - more for me!!"

"Uh - where'd they go??"

"I just can't figure this stuff out,but it sure is fun!"

Mama thinks we didn't see it, but we know a new Kitnip box came today, too!  We saw her open the front door and bring it in, but she just sat it down kinda nonchalant, thinking we wouldn't notice.  I guess she didn't want to steal the excitement from my birthday celebration, so maybe we'll open that when she gets  home tonight!  I hope so!

We'll let you know what's in the new Kitnip box when we open it.  Since it's November, it probably has something to do with Thanksgiving - maybe a turkey filled with catnip!  We'll keep you posted!

Thanks for taking time to read about my birthday!  This is turning out to be such a fun week!