Shave The Cat?

See this adorable kitten!!

Well it's all grown up......

She's really more in the annoying teen ager stage...making prank phone calls. 

(no lie I found her like this one day!)

You might recognize this extremely furry feline from past posts. Yes she is the one that ate my gingerbread house, and sleeps in any baby place she can find. She wasn't always a bum. She used to be my baby and when Amber was first born she acted like "Nana" towards her.  Now she's my troublemaker cat! 

To make it worse, this cat who's already in the dog house as it is, has the worst matted hair you could ever imagine! It all happened while we were staying in the hospital and she missed her weekly, daily, hourly brushing. Maybe she's going through a reggae faze?  I don't know but it's beyond horrible. She has mazes of mats. Yes her mats have matted to each other! In two weeks! TWO WEEKS!!! 

(This is before the mats...she might have a few it's new baby time frame)

I'm really at my whits ends with this cat! Everyone in the house has tried to de-tangle the beast! I'm about to find someone to shave her. I really don't want to. So, I'm just wondering if there are any feline aficionado out there reading this baby blog who know what the heck I can do with this poor mess of a cat. Or maybe even someone who knows something about long haired dog grooming?? I know tangles. I've fought hair that thinks it needs to be in dreads by noon and this feels hopeless! 

Can anyone save this cat, before what fragile feline friendship we have is gone? 

Or what little sanity I have left is gone!

 The good o' days

before the fat cat was added

before the baby was added

before the mats came along

Good NIGHT! Seriousness will resume in the morning!

Happy New Year?

It's been kind of a bitter sweet start to the year for us. Christmas was wonderful it was so nice to spend time with my family and have my dad and brother home. Here's Amber in her Christmas jammies giving her Christmas doll a hug! I'm not sure if she meant to do this or not. She did it a few times before she started eating the dolls arm :)

Good News: Amber is showing a lot of progress. She is using and opening her hands more, I even saw her open her thumb up to grab at a toy!! Her head control is way better. She is well on her way to supporting it herself! Her neurology appointment went really well. The Dr said that she had no reason to believe any of Amber's delays were brain related and she thinks the seizure like episodes she was having were due to bad acid reflux (sounds really weird but apparently that can affect the brain stem) She had her blood level re-tested (she's been off her meds for a month now) and the levels are normal! She'll have them tested again in February and we'll have more x-rays then too.

The Not So Great News: At her last appointment she was only 7 pounds :/ its not a great weight gain and I really thought she would be closer to 8 by now. Her 3 month well baby appointment is next week so hopefully she's gained more weight. My hope is that once she starts on solids she'll gain more and gain steadily.

She is becoming such a smiley girl and so talkative too! Here she is checking out her hands.

We spent a lot of last year preparing for this day but its not really something you can prepare for. Second time around and its still just as hard. We'll spend all of this year waiting for him to come home. At the same time we'll be missing my brother who deploys any day now. We did get to spend a lot of time with them before they left and had a lot of fun together.
It does seem like everyone is leaving. My grandparents, aunt and mom are all in Florida. Its very weird and quite here :/ at least I've still got my hubby here!! Well I'm not completely abandoned we still have family and friends helping out but there's nothing like a mother.

On A Lighter Note!! Are you wondering what happened to that to the gingerbread house?

It's hard to see but here's its fate:
It's being eaten! The fluffy culprit is Jada. She's not the only one Mr. Pickles has been helping eat it too. All the coconut snow is gone! Who would have thought cats would eat something like this!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a blessed New Year!

Feline Friend

I'm done with Christmas shopping! Today I'm supposed to be wrapping presents, getting a Christmas card picture done and baking. Well that's not really happening because Amber was (emphasis on was) having a good morning and wanted to talk to and be played with. I ran upstairs for the Boppy and came back down to find this:

She was telling Jada some big story (they're very good friends)

Then she realized I was there and told me some big story (I talk back)

This is some of our conversations...please ignore my ridiculously high pitched voice.

I took the video on my phone (can you see the other cat in the background)

I was able to get some cute pictures for our car and some gifts before she started fussing and fell asleep again. I still need a few more pictures and I think I might post them tomorrow, they really are adorable! Well I'm off to make gingerbread pieces for house making tomorrow!! Wish me luck I've never done it from scratch before!!
BTW we have 4 cats...sometime I'll introduce you to them :)