January With A Cat

The undisputed star of our show right now is Jingles. If I can't find the kids, if they are laughing, if they are fighting, if they are running late... it always comes down to this innocent looking kitten. 

She gets carried, wrapped up, pushed in the stroller, basically everything that a self respecting feline absolutely hates. There have been some scratches, and the shocking realization that she was hissing at Evie because of her cat ear headbands. For the first few week, headband on, she hated her, headband off, she was cool. She has learned to accept Evie in a headband, but it was funny for the girls when they realized they could scare her out of her wits by putting on a headband. She even hated me with a headband, ME, her bestie.

Evie and her friend wanted a picture wearing cake and ice cream hats. That ice cream hat was originally made for Kara, and now too small for Evie. Isn't it sad? Maybe time to make a new one. A bigger one. A better one. 

We have all learned to leave Jingles alone when she is in her castle. Ben named it her feisty castle. If she's playing on it and you dare to touch her, you are likely going to be bitten or clawed. She occasionally sleeps there as well, but mostly she just tries her best to tear it apart. 

That ball hanging down, swung around a few weeks ago and trapped her by the paw, she was quite distressed, but I think if I hadn't happened along right after, she'd have gotten untangled on her own eventually. 

On career day at school Kiersten dressed like a "diva" (though she wants to be a football player), and Evie dressed as a pop star (though she wants to be a cruise ship captain). I asked Kiersten was a diva does, and she said, "Does a Diva need to DO anything?" Good point. Evie helpfully pointed out that you can have any type of job and be a diva. 

Didn't know pop stars go around wearing unicorn heabands  and tutus, did you?

Kiersten had a special chorus concert at school. She was very excited, and they sang great songs. 

Kara ran in ahead of Evie and me and got us a front row seat, so that was nice. 

Evie decided to wear her Christmas dress in an effort to steal the spotlight. Notice the Fairy Tail tattoo on her hand. 

They have to do things like this, just because. 

I did ask them to try at least one traditional pose for me. Kara said I was a boring photographer. I reminded her I'm not any kind of photographer, and she agreed.