Welcome Butterscotch!

Kailey has always wanted to sleep in our bed. She did for the first 10 months of her life, and since then she has been trying to back in our room. She goes down great, but quite often calls for me in the middle of the night. It started to get pretty bad again so we started a sticker chart. If you got 5 stickers she could get a pet fish. Petsmart is her favorite store, so I thought it would be good motivation. To my complete surprise, it worked. Within a week she got five stickers, and after church two weeks ago we took her to pick out her new fish. While I was filling my cart with all of the things I was convinced this little fish "needed," the girls had completely moved on to other things (like most 1 and 2 year old probably do.) To my surprise they were with Nate looking at all of the cats that were up for adoption. When I walked over with all my "fish stuff," Nate told me to go get a manager there were two cats "the girls" wanted to see. We didn't really need to see two. The one that we all picked out was tiny, had just been rescued, and all the notes said that it loved to play with kids. He jumped right into Kailey's arms, when Gianna tried to grab the cat, it jumped right into her lap. A big plus for me was that this kitty was not shedding all over, and even if he did, it is pretty much the color of our house. Butterscotch has been a wonderful addition to our home. He plays with the girls all day, he doesn't mind when they chase him at all. He would love to sleep with the girls, but we haven't got to that point yet, I'm sure it is coming. Here are some pictures my sister took while she was here.

Kailey also got a harmonica this week. It is her new favorite noise maker. She saw one on Mary Poppins and knew how to do it right away. Gianna still is trying to figure hers out, but we'll post some pics when she gets into it.