terror puppets and kittens.

So yesterday was lots of excitement. Laura was planning on watching Jonas all day, but she got a cold, so we had to reschedule. Since I had a lunch packed and Brandon needed the day to work, I took Jonas to the childrens' museum for a while. Jonas had his usual good time, playing with everything and especially the trains, however, he did have an experience with a puppet that I think is worth sharing. One of his favorite rooms is the "stage". He LOVES pushing the buttons and turning the dials that work the "behind the scenes" stuff, and sometimes likes to get on the stage and play the drums. He is also perfectly happy watching the other kids play. When we walked in, however, he was immediately taken aback by some kids playing with the puppets. Not by their general puppet creepiness, he just saw this one puppet of a dark green frog that he clearly did not like. I don't know why, but he was probably 30 ft from it, and he instantly tensed up, ran for me and held my legs. After he got over the green puppet frog shock, he started to enjoy the room. Anyway, Joe was playing the run-in-circles-around-the-stage game, where he "hides" from me, then runs out of the side stage and announces "Boo!". Good game. Jonas ran behind the stage on one pass, and some of the kids with the puppets had run over to play the drums, carelessly tossing the green frog puppet on the stage. As you may have guessed, Jonas ran out from side stage and announced "Boo!" with glee. Side stage is about 2 feet lower than the stage, so Jonas turned to climb back on the stage and repeat the process. He came face to face, like, literally inches between him and this puppet. I have never seen the child freak out like he did in that moment. I lol as I type this. He did the foot stamping, hands waving, forgot how to move away, pretty-much-useless-because-you're-so-scared dance, coupled with a blood cordling scream, whilst backing away from the poor puppet. He managed to fall over a mom who wasn't looking at him (yet), and his long shreak of terror became loud wailing cries as he atttempted to will his muscles to work and find me. I about peed I was laughing so hard... poor little guy. In conclusion, we left the stage for a while.

On the way over, I called Julie to see if we could go see her, and she said that would be fine. Soooo, Jonas and I played at the museum for a while, then we headed over to Julie and Nicole's to visit. It was great to see Julie again after a summer of pretty much no sissies, and Jonas at the very least enjoyed looking for Summer (Mooooow!). I decided to let Joe take a nap there, so I set him up in Nicole's dark dungeon room for his nap. Julie had had to leave for school, and I asked her if she needed help. She replied it would help if I could get some of her stuff unpacked, so I got started on that... or DID I? No sooner had I thought about it than Nicole came in from work! So I got to visit with cousin for a while too, yay!

Jonas slept for a LOOONG time there, till almost 3:30, so I did end up getting all of sissy's stuff unpacked =), Jonas got up, and of course wanted to wash his hands, so I was holding him up to the sink to wash them, then dry them (yes, this is going somewhere). I had stepped out of the bathroom holding Joe, but backing out for some reason (can't remember why) when I caught the image of a really tall and big looking guy standing RIGHT BEHIND ME-- and I about had a heart attack. For those of you who have been to their house though, you know that the man I saw was none other than larger-than-life-john-krazenskyi (sp?)-modeling-for-the-gap hanging in their hall... now, larger-than-life-john-krazenskyi (sp?)-modeling-for-the-gap has never once bothered me before, in fact, I really like larger-than-life-john-krazenskyi (sp?)-modeling-for-the-gap-- however, when you are not expecting larger-than-life-john-krazenskyi (sp?)-modeling-for-the-gap to be RIGHT BEHIND YOU, its pretttty creeeeepy. I shall for give larger-than-life-john-krazenskyi (sp?)-modeling-for-the-gap, though, as we all have our faults, and his persistant eyes are really not his fault.

Annnnyway... Jonas and I went back to the children's museum for a while, till 5. We kept a wary eye on the stage room, but otherwise had fun. We headed back home, and once we got there decided to walk around outside and let rudy run some. Our neighbor, as we were walkinga sked if we had seen a kitten. "No," I replied, just as I heard a pitiful "mew" from a local bush. He said he had seen a stray kitten and was trying to get it some food. Well, instantly, I was interested because it was a baby animal, and JOnas was intereste because he heard "kitten" (MoooOOoooOW!) so we squatted down by the bush and started coaxing. Sure enough, a minute later a teeny tiny kitten.. maybe 6 weeks old if that peeped out from the bush. Immediately it ran back in because rudy bounded over with a tuba music accompaniment to see what was going on.

We put rudy away and got brandon "the cat whisperer" Kennedy to come and see the kitty. Yup, that was a kitten. and it was very friendly. We realized pretty fast this kitten was nearly starved to death, so we took it inside and immediately contacted our closest cat experts, Alex and Nicole. Nicole dropped everything and came over with all the supplies for kittens in hand (awesome!) and stayed for dinner and kitten playing. So now we have a kitten living with us for the next few days. We are trying to find it a home, so if you're interested, dear reader, please let me know.

Jonas was thrilled to have this kitten in the house... I mean, I am really scared for the poor cat's life because Joe wanted to rock it, and play with it and see if he could step on it. You know it's tiny if Iw as afraid JOe would crush it to death with one step... yeah. Rudy finally got to meet the kitten, and I believe the kitten remembered Rudy, because it gave its nastiest (aww, precious) spat and clawed the air when rudy approached... sending rudy running for the door. Yes, rudy was afraid of a 6" kitten. He cried at the door to be let out from the devil creature... which we laughed at. It looks like today they are better friends, now that the kitten know rudy is under its paw. Good grief, we have such a cowardly dog....

I think brandon is falling for this kitten... that's not good. we really shouldn't keep a cat too. but gosh, it's adorable, and it REALLY seems to like brandon a lot ("Finally, i'm SOMEONE's favorite!"). I dunno... maybe we'll find someone... maybe not? ugh.