Cat and boy/The artist and the eater

[nanila]

This will end well.

The dialogue went something like this.

Keiki: "I love you, kitteh! I love you so much! I drool on you!"
Telstar: "There had better be some prime gooshy food waiting for me downstairs in about five minutes when the baby is still alive after this."





The topmost photo is actually the last one I took, because Keiki landed squarely on top of Telstar, buried his face in his fur and clenched both his fists around Telstar's middle. Telstar, bless him, merely gave me a long-suffering look, sighed and put his paws up by his head whilst I disengaged the baby.


Halloween decorations, painted by Humuhumu and me.

The toddler and I passed our time in a slightly more productive way this weekend. Whilst Keiki napped, exhausted from his assaults on the cat, we made decorations for her birthday party, which will be on Halloween. We did a lot of gluing and also some drawing and painting. I was quite proud of her efforts. I laid a bit of the base paint on these ceramic skulls for her, but the final effect is all down to her and - I know I'm biased - I think they're pretty fantastic.


Humuhumu celebrates her achievements by eating a biscuit.*


Keiki...eats a biscuit with the aid of his new teeth.

* I just realised I didn't post publicly about this. Last Monday, Humuhumu fell in the playground at nursery. She does this regularly, but this time she managed to fall face-first onto a solitary piece of bark tracked in from the car park, which cut her forehead. She went to hospital and to the GP, where she would like everyone to know that she was very brave and didn't cry.

We took the steri-tape off last night. She was, as expected, very brave about it. We're not sure if it'll scar yet, but at the moment it makes for a pretty perfect Harry Potter cosplay with her glasses.

Comments

[aella_irene]

Aww, Keiki. Truly, Telstar is patient, and wise in the ways of getting gooshy food.

And those are awesome skulls! Well done Humuhumu!

[nanila]

Telstar's pretty crafty about his gooshy food. He knows that his humans are often distracted and don't know whether or not the other one has fed him. He often gets double rations that way.

\o/ The skulls are wonderfully creepy. I was quite proud.

[whereisirisnow]

Oh Keiki loving Telstar is so cute! And those are indeed lovely painted skulls. Did you make any more decorations together?

[nanila]

Poor Telstar. Keiki adores him. The feeling is not quite mutual. :P

We have made some gift bags for her friends. I have plans for us to make a few more decorations together, including some creepy cupcakes.

[cmcmck]

Other half's birthday is on the 28th so they're pretty close together! :o)

[nanila]

:D Yay! October is full of good birthdays.

[pbristow]

Those skulls are proper creepy! Humuhumu shows a true mastery of the "uncanny valley" there. =:o}

And as long as Keiki understands that teeth are for biscuits and drool is for cats, not the other way round... =8o?

[nanila]

I was quite proud of my BabyGoth's aesthetic. :)

I'm sure Keiki will get it wrong at some point. :/

[weaverbird]

These photos have been delighting me all day.

Humuhumu should be very proud of those skulls - they look great!

And Telstar really can be an angel at times, can't he? How wonderfully patient he was with Keiki - and how adorable the pix!

[nanila]

Telstar's brilliant with small children. He always has been, even when he was a kitten. I remember Little Nephew picking up him up by one paw and dangling him in the air, and Telstar just went limp and looked appealingly at me to rescue him.

[lark_ascends]

Gorgeous.

[nanila]

:) Thank you. The skulls made excellent table decorations at the Halloween Birthday Party Extravaganza!