Hamlet

Today is the day we got to pick up Hamlet.  The first thing we did when we got home was let Trudy and Kacy outside.  We let Hamlet explore for a bit before slowly bringing the other 2 in.

 When we let Trudy in, she walked up to Hamlet, they sniffed, then she walked away.

 And gave us the "You brought another one home?"

 Even at 4 months, Hamlet is a vicious red dot hunter.

 Kacy was completely unaware that Hamlet was sniffing her.  She must have thought it was Trudy.  But then she turned and was face to face with him

 It was not well received!  You can't quite make out her angry aggressive face.

It might take awhile for Kacy to 'accept' Hamlet.
Hamlet is the perfect cat for Megan.  He not only tolerates Megan's affection, he seems to enjoy it.  He is completely mellow.

Humane Society

 Our tour guide was Chris.  Her daughter is a member of our club.

 Eric is petting one of many, many, many cats roaming around the shelter.  If you are freaked out by cats, the Humane Society is not the place for you.  They were everywhere.

 Hee hee.  I thought this was funny.  The cat in this kennel does not do well with catnip.

 If I had the choice of cats to bring home, it would be this one.  So gentle.  I pet his head, and he just rolled over for his tummy to be rubbed.

 The dog shelter was quite noisy

 Chris teaching the kids how evil dog breeders are.

Here's the crew!

Cats, a history

On June 24. 2011, Trudy the Cat "temporarily" moved in with us when Gma and Gpa LaFleur were evacuated to our house due to the flood in Minot.    When they were able to move into their temporary apartment a month later, Trudy stayed with, just a little bit, until they could get to a more permanent home.  When that finally happened in September.....there were tears.  Many tears and sobs from the innocent children.  They decided they were not going to give Trudy back to Grandma.

She was well loved.  Well, well loved.  Perhaps loved more than she wanted to be loved.

July 26, 2012.  The LaFleurs take a trip to PetSmart to replace Megan's dead goldfish and buy more cat litter for Trudy.  We came home with this:

Turn head sideways to see this pic

 Trudy was thrilled with our spontaneous decision to bring a less than 2# ball of energy home.

They eventually became friends...mostly.  Trudy was very accepting of Kacy, and was quite motherly to her.

Aug 6, 2015.  The kids' 4H club tours the Central Dakota Humane Society.  Bad things happen when you take 3 kids to tour the Humane Society.

This is Hamlet.  He is approximately 4 months old.  He took a strong liking to Eric.  We will bring him home on Friday.  Good golly.

Lego Dreams

This past weekend, Eric was able to make his long anticipated mecca to the Lego Store at the Mall of America..  This trip has been in the makings since Sept of 2013.  We dropped Megan off with Jason and Holly in Fargo.  Eric has saved his money from allowance, mowing lawn, and birthday presents all summer, and had several Lego sets in mind that he planned to buy.  He left the Lego Store a happy boy.  And broke.  He showed a lot of will power not opening the sets up until we got back home.  He started building the first one at 4 pm, and was still up at 11 building.  He was up at 7, and I made him come up for air around 10:30.  By lunch time, all 3 sets were complete, and he spent the rest of the afternoon admiring his work.

Passed another one

Add Mary Kay to the growing list of people the boys are now taller than

Morton Co Fair

We had our 4H achievement days on Thursday.  Jonathan had 3 projects: Magic cupcKes, a collection of recipes for his favorite meal, and a fitness plan.  Eric entered an engineering project: a display showing comparison of 3 different marshmallow catapults he built.  Megan mAde    a bracelet and a necklace.

The boys got blues on all of their projects.  Megan got a Cloverbud ribbon.  Eric's display also warned an honorable mention, which means it was considered for the grand champion.

Hair

Eric has not had haircuts high on his priority list for the past year.  He's had 3 haircuts since August 2013.  He does not care for haircuts, as the haircut giver typically attempts to engage him in small talk.  We've 'allowed' him to keep his hair a little shabbier, but today was they day we cut it the old way.

The pic of him chomping on a 3 animal burger (cow, turkey, pig) does not do justice to how shaggy his 'do is.  Kristin had him put his size 11 feet up to the pile of hair she swept up.

There's my boy!