Cuddle cats!

This past week, we have figured out all of Lorelie's talents.
Her first talent is she can cuddle and sleep almost all day.
The next talent is she knows how to e-mail. That is a very funny story. We were eating breakfast and daddy told me to come see what Lorelie did, so I did. She had pulled up a blank e-mail, probably by hitting a combination of buttons on the keyboard. So, we were all joking that she had e-mailed some of her friends to tell them how great it was to be living here.
Her next talent is talking. At night, just right when I get into bed I am usually reading or trying to get to sleep, Lorelie will come in and start meowing and I will answer her like she is talking. I of course have no clue what she is saying. So, I answer her with "yeah" or "I know." When she thinks the conversation is done, she comes up and cuddles with me.
As you can tell by this photo, she does a very good job with her talent of cuddling!

Hit the snooze, it's time to get up!

I have a brand-new alarm clock.
It is white, it purrs and has fur. Can you guess who it is?
If you guessed Mika, you're right!
Every morning at exactly 6:24, Mika comes into my room, climbs onto my bed and comes over and starts purring. She kind of knows that I will wake up then.
Then, I get up... yawn... stretch... lay in bed for two minutes... then get up.
By that time, Lorelie has convinced herself it's the end of the world because Mika is sucking up and she gets mean and starts bullying Mika around. Then I have to carry both cats downstairs and take a bath and them they usually try to sneak in and get on top of the tub. They like to get into the bathroom so much that both have figured out if the door is not closed all the way how to open.
Lorelie is really sneaking into the bathroom and making mischief. A few days ago my dad caught Lorelie coming out of the bathroom with a razor in her mouth.
When I heard about it, I went, "Well, she does have a little bit of armpit hair!"

A Cat Comes to Dog Town

Saturday we got two cats from the Humane Society.
One of them is Annika's and her name is Mika. The other one is mine. Her name is Lorelie. She has black fur with two white spots on her belly. She has green eyes.
At first she was kind of a sleepy head, a don't-really-want-to-do-anything kind of a cat.
Now that she know us, all she thinks about is paper.
She chases it, carries it around in her mouth and she tries to sneak up on it. This morning my dad was going to click on something with the mouse when all of a sudden the mouse was slipping away from him. He bent over to see what the problem was and there was Lorelie looking up at him! She was tugging at the mouse from the other side of the computer desk.
Today we have the day off from school, so I am going to play with Lorelie. Then I am going to work on my Social Studies project for a while. I have to find flags of the southeastern states.

Grrr... Oh hi!

Recently, my sister and I went to go get Tucker.
Tucker is probably the star of this whole blog. He is our friends' dog and he is really nice.
We were going to have him overnight, but first we had to go get him.
When we got there Tucker came out and growled at us, but then he recognized us and came over and would not stop licking us. He was so happy to see us. We got in the car and he would not stop crying until we got home. When we got there, he went to the bathroom on the carpet so I had to take him outside for about three minutes and he went to the bathroom.
When we went to bed, he went from mom and dad's room to Annika's room, where I was sleeping. He decided to sleep with us, so he could actually get some sleep.
The next morning I had to take a bath, so I went into the bathroom and all of a sudden, Tucker freaked out. He started whining and barking and he would not settle down. He thought I left. Then my dad called Annika down and Tucker calmed down a little but was still a little freaked out. When I came out he got all happy and raced up the steps to see me.
When we had to take him home, he got into the car but then started whining again. I guess he was sad that he couldn't stay.

Goddog visits

This past weekend my goddog Zoe came to visit at our new house.
I think she must not have recovered from the time she bumped her head on the wooden desk in the corner because, as you can tell, she is still pretty... how do you say it... dumb, stupid and crazy.
When she first got here she was a little calm. Then, she saw us and totally started freaking out. But, after a while, she calmed down and was a lovable, crazy dog.
We took on a walk to Ann St., which is two blocks away, walked down that block and down Garfield to the apartments -- which is a good mile, I would say.
Then we had to walk back, the same way we came. When we got back, she was really tired, so she was cute.
My mom and dad were very happy because she didn't have any accidents, which was good. I really think she was too busy wondering what we were doing, sleeping on the couch and checking the floor for crumbs. There was really no time for an accident.

Braces

On Tuesday I got the most painful thing -- for now -- there will ever be -- braces.
My braces are lime green and light blue. When I was getting them I was more afraid of the big white plastic thing holding my mouth. Then, the big thing that could burn me if it touched anything other than my teeth. I should probably mention that that day I woke up really tired and a couple times the orthodontist had to tap me.
There are some good things about having braces. I have figured out who my worst enemy is... duh-duh-duh-duh! The spoon!
Because it is very hard to get a spoon in my mouth with braces.
On the day I got my braces, I had pizza pocket things. I was supposed to have peanut butter and jelly, but it was too peanut buttery. My friends knew I was getting braces. They thought I would go with some whacko color thing like black and purple. But I told them there were two reasons I wasn't going to go with those colors:
1) None of my outfits would match.
2) I hate the color purple! It's so related to pink.

Puppymania!!!

Tonight I experienced puppymania.
I started out looking for puggle pictures online and I found a lot. I also looked for golden retriever pictures, black and yellow lab pictures and I fell in love with all of them.
So, my dad told me to delete a lot of them.
I really did not want to, because they were all so cute but I decided once the other ones get old, I can find new ones.
We are FINALLY getting a house of our own and getting a DOG of our own. I have been waiting to get a dog for the last two years. We have been fighting on a name. I want Lorelai, Luke or Rory (they come from Gilmore Girls, my favorite TV show). I have no clue what the other ones want. I have just been telling everyone every day I want Lorelai, Luke or Rory.
Everyone else has been telling me it should be a name like Tucker, Zoe, Cash or Princess. My dad says that "Cat" would work as a name, but we are getting a DOG! Princess is also off my list because it is waaaay too girly. Zoe can't work, because my goddog is named Zoe. My cousin Morgan let me be the godmother to her dog.
Cash will not work because my godmother's (the one in Iowa) dog is named Johnny Cash, but we all call him Cash or Cashy Baby. Tucker doesn't work because our friends' dog is named Tucker.
So, all in the end, Lorelai, Luke or Rory would just be perfect.

Please welcome Buster the Bird!

Well, it all started when we said we were just going to "bird-sit" Buster.
Buster first belonged to our friends Matt and Emily and when they got married we promised to bird-sit.
We were supposed to give him back a few weeks ago, but we begged and begged to get to keep Buster.
Matt and Emily joked about how Buster is all of a sudden a good bird because he used to be the biggest scaredy cat you would ever know.
Now that he is with us, Buster just loves it. Maybe it's because we feed him almost every day?

My dog-sitting days

This summer I dog-sat two dogs. One is Zoe, who is in the picture. And the other one is Tucker, who you will see a lot in this blog. Zoe belongs to my cousin Morgan and Tucker belongs to our friends, Ken and Roxane.
Tucker is a cross between a beagle and a pug and Zoe is just a yellow lab who is very crazy. Tucker is a lot more laid back and sweeter and Zoe is more of a rough house kind of a dog. Zoe also barks a lot. My dad's probably still trying to catch up with his sleep after getting up at 5 o'clock with both Zoe and Tucker.
It was fun to dog-sit because I don't own a dog so it's very fun to care for dogs.

Whippet, Whippet good

This weekend, I got a book about all these kinds of dog breeds and my favorite one is a whippet.
Whippets are small greyhounds. I read that they are fast and very kind and gentle.
In the old days, whippets were bred for racing. That is why they are so fast.
Whippets have two kinds of speeds -- fast and asleep. My aunt Inger told me that and she took the picture to the right.
This is a dog named Daisy. It lives in an apartment in San Francisco.
When I grow up, I plan on having two whippets and one other kind of dog.

3 days I have to get up!

3,2,1... School's almost over!
I'm sooo HAPPY I could scream!
This summer I plan on swimming, seeing my cousin and reading and writing on my blog.
Maybe even visiting TUCKER.

Here is what we look like, with Tucker as a puppy

Me and Tucker and my sister Annika.
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A DOG NAMED TUCKER!

Yesterday I went to a party where I hung out with a dog named Tucker. He got ran over by a car and survived. I sat with him and petted him. He was so happy he was shaking.
I felt so happy to sit with him.
I am saving my money to buy a dog.

Arf! Arf! Hi!

My name is Kerstin and what I plan on doing is just talking about animals, mainly dogs. My two favorite animals are pandas and dogs. I like to read a lot of books on animals and I am going to use this Web site to talk about interesting things I found.
If you have any stories to share, go ahead and post them.