Comparison / Contrast!

Here's an interesting exercise - comparison and contrast between the 4-month-old toy and the brand new toy!

New!

Old!!

Audace simply prefers to hog both!!

Just like when they were kittens!

Still snoozin' together ... all their little lives!!

Happy #3, boys!!

Today is Happy 3rd Birthday for Audace and Ruse! Actually, we are also getting some extra goodies for Grace; she's the one who did all the work! We also are sending out purrs and prayers of great gratitude for Auntie Deb and Mommy ML -- who rescued Grace and her four babies three years ago (minus four days)!!

Happy Birthday, guys!!

There'll be some presents and lots of playing going on!

Ruse is posing near the supplies I need in order to clean up all the messes he makes when he hacks up a hairball or something. Only Ruse seems to do this, so these Bissell things are really for him!

Ruse is in one of his favorite spots - he can look out into the back yard and make sure there are no trespassers out there! (Not that he'd know what to do if there were!!)

Turkey, turkey, turkey - that's what all three of them like. No chicken. No beef. No fish of any kind. (Kitties after my own heart! I cannot handle the smell or taste of any type of fish!) Only turkey!!


Audace is showing off his handiwork on the less-than-4 month-old S-toy! It was in much better shape, even in February!

Audace also loves his rocker-toy. Best of all is to jump into it and chase twine! The bell and the canvas make wonderful sounds!!

An additional S-toy will be their big present today - one that's not broken (as their first one was) or in shreds (as their second one is). We'll see how long it takes for them (mainly Audace, I'm sure) to rip up the new one!

So ... Happy 3rd Birthday, you guys!

5 days to the birthday!

Five more days until Audace and Ruse turn 3 years old! Here are some more photos from the archives. In the first three photos, they were about four months old, very gangly, but cuter than anything! And always together when they needed naps!






Ruse and Audace (bottom) celebrated their first Christmas!

Getting well

Auntie Deb is back home at Mommy ML and Charley's house, recuperating and resting, we're sure. And we've very sure that Missy, KC, Faith, and the boys are all doing their part to help all the beans in that house get well!!

Get REALLY well soon!

Auntie Deb, Grace & Company's rescuer and foster mom, is in the hospital in Houston, and we're all purring and praying that she gets well soon and back to her normal life. Once she leaves the hospital, she'll stay with KC and the gang in Houston until she is well enough to go back home and be with her own gang, the Taylor CatSSSSS.

We love you, Auntie Deb.

Friday Flashbacks

Here's an idea from our look-alikes in England - Eric and Flynn -- Friday Flashbacks!

Since Audace and Ruse's 3rd birthday is about 1½ weeks away (April 15th), I decided to do a little looking back! Here are a few photos from when they were less than 7 weeks old! Thank you, Auntie Deb, for such great photos!!

Audace --





Ruse --





And one of the whole crew --

Wordy Wednesday Challenge 2009

Thanks to Zoolatry for the marvelous artwork.


Our Wordle was created at www.wordle.net. Click on any image to "biggify" it!

BIG kitties!

Grace & Company didn't go, of course, but my daughter and grandbeans and I saw these BIG lady kitties at Houston's Downtown Aquarium last Saturday. Impressive! (Click on it to "biggify" and see these beauties better!)



To read and see pix and video about our wonderful Saturday, go to Writeacher's Thoughts -- enjoy!

Crazy Saturday morning!

Suddenly this morning, Grace took it into her head to race around the whole house and back again. She ended up in the living room where the play cubes are. She raced in so fast that she turned the cube over on one side, thereby twisting all the connecting cubes into a pile-up! Audace seemed dumbfounded ... usually he and Ruse are doing all the running around!


Can you see Grace's little face in the bottom cube? Funny girl.


Audace had to chase Grace out of the cubes and then figure out what the heck she was doing in there!


Hmmm! Maybe it was something outside the cubes that got her attention. Audace can't seem to figure it out!


Ruse stayed safely out of the way on the windowsill while all this silliness was going on!

Doldrums

There's not much new around here. We eat. We sleep. We run, chase, play. The twine tied to toy mousie tails continue to be the BEST toys of all, and that S-toy is the BEST scratcher in the world!!

GK (see below) is still at our bean's daughter's house, and the grandbeans take really good care of him. He's lots of fun -- likes to roll over and play. Cabbie is still very jealous, and he keeps the grandbeans busy, too, just retrieving him from the back yard. He still doesn't play well with other kitties, especially GK.

We need our bean to take more photos of our gorgeous selves so we can post more stuff!

A new "cousin" - sort of!

Here's a cutie who has adopted my grandbeans' garage and backyard. When he first showed up, he was really skinny -- too skinny -- and his fur was not in good shape. He clearly hadn't eaten much in a while. So now he has a bed and regular food and water, and he's been checked out at the v-e-t's -- got caught up on shots. We've made flyers which we will laminate and post around the area. He is clearly someone's pet, but no one knows who -- and he's not talking! His name? "Kitty" for now, although "Garage Kitty" was his nickname at first.





Of course, Grace & Company are completely oblivious to his existence! But Cabernet knows he's out there, and Cabernet doesn't play nice. So he's restricted to being indoor-kitty until he learns some manners -- which may never happen!

Rippin' it up!

I know it's not Audace alone, but he's the biggest user of the S-toy. They all love it, but he dominates it!! The close-ups show how he's already in the process of ripping up the carpeted spots!

Our Wordle!

We made a wordle for ourselves. See it at the right? The words that are very important to us are in there somewhere! Click on it to make it bigger - then you can read all about us!!

Going slightly nuts!

Audace and Ruse are easily riled up! They need ... they BEG ... for playtime, morning and evening. (And of course the rest of the day and night is reserved for snoozing and eating, mostly snoozing!)

Here's Audace, all tangled up in his twine toys! He doesn't seem to care if I fling the twine around so he can chase and jump or if it's all draped around him so he can run around the house like a whirling dervish, chasing that twine!


And here's Ruse. He had chased the twine toy all over the place -- and he ended up under the play cubes!! He likes to push them around the room from underneath!


Here's Ruse again, getting in some scratching time on what Audace thinks is his own S-toy!!


Here's Audace again, having run from the garage through the hallway and family room, into the living room, into the kitchen and ending up on top of the fridge. Well, he's a BIG boy and needs his running space, that's clear!

Catching up again!

Holy smoke! What a time we had last week. I'm sure Grace & Company felt rather neglected in the areas of playtime and personal attention. Grandbean Kira had fever, coughing, etc., all last week - missed all four school days! - and Grandbean Austen had semester exams - different pick-up times all week long! Thankfully, Grandbean Parker is healthy and had normal school days last week. He's the only one who did!

Here are Grace and Audace inspecting the books and other goodies from one of Deb & ML's auctions - this photo is from Jan 9!! They had to snoopervise the unpacking, you know!


And here is Ruse - still slim and lithe enough to get to the top of the cupboards and over to the area where both he and Audace used to snooze when they were still kittens! I'm sure he is mystified about why it's so hard to get past that funny ceiling right there. Tight fit!

This week should be back to normal - whatever that is!

Audace watches TV!

Pluto and Indy used to do this, but this is the first time I've seen Audace pay attention to anything on TV. I was watching some of the Wild America DVDs my bro sent me for Christmas, and this one was called "Wild Texas" -- filled with bird and other animal sounds. Audace paid attention; Grace and Ruse slept through it all!