Goodbye Sammy

My oldest cat, Sammy, (aka Smee, Cow Kitty, Fatty) crossed over the Rainbow Bridge a couple weeks ago. She had been declining for quite a while - arthritis, I think, along with an old-kitty condition in which claws curve around to grow into the foot pad, which is pretty painful. Sammy had a good long life - at least 16 years - so my sister and I decided to take her to the vet to have them take care of her.

The day before her procedure, I fed her as much canned food as she could eat and gave her lots of love. The next day my sister and I drove to the vet's office, and I was fine until we put her on the table. So, so sad to put a beloved pet to sleep. It's heartbreaking. Thankfully the process was quick and she drifted off without any pain. We chose to bring Sammy home and bury her in our backyard.

After losing Pepper 2 years ago, we're now we're a 1 cat, 1 dog household - which is plenty now that we have a little 2-legged troublemaker!

Boyd and Sammy on her last day.

Silly boy

Hold on tight

First BIG BOY ride in a shopping cart!

I couldn't believe how well he did. Usually we take the whole infant car seat and pop it into a stroller frame - it's convenient and the frame is fairly lightweight compared to a big stroller. The downside to this setup is that Boyd is stuck in his hot car seat at an incline for the duration of our shopping trip. And you can only fit so many items into the little basket underneath his seat. Grocery shopping can get difficult if the list is more than a few items long. As an alternative I would put the whole car seat in the main part of the shopping cart, especially at Costco, but then my space for groceries was limited. If we have another kid, I'll just wear the little one in an Ergo carrier and sit Boyd in the cart. 

Lately Boyd has really been struggling to sit up in the car seat, so I didn't even bring the stroller frame on this shopping trip with my mom. We popped him in the cart on top of a blanket and he was good to go! We were in Fred Meyer to purchase 4 bar stools for my mom's breakfast nook (you can see the boxes in our carts below). Her house is slowly coming together and looking great.

Little bit of an Elvis sneer here, I think.

Holding on for safety!

Video: Crib time - 7.5 months

Mr. Roly Poly baby - look at him go!

Can it - baby edition

Risha and Gabe are borrowing our pressure canner to can salmon, which will be used as wedding favors next summer. As you can see, the canner is the perfect size to hold a Boyd-sized baby...

Still very rainy in our neck of the woods. Haven't seen anymore snow since last month but it's just a matter of time. Fall is health fair time at my workplace so I've been pretty busy. We completed one fair and have 2 more to go. Because of this extra overtime in my schedule, my boss has given me Mondays off for the month of October. Still waiting to hear if it will become permanent!

D and I both had to work this past Saturday and thankfully my mom was able to watch Boyd. She stopped by the health fair to get her own labs done and brought Boyd so my coworkers could get a good look at him. They loved him! It helps that he is such a sweet baby.