Sunday, June 13, 2010

Meet the newest Griswold....


Figaro!

Matthew has been begging for a kitty for awhile, and frankly, I have missed a cat in the house for quite some time, so this was more for me than him, but I am sure he will reep the benefits from it since the kitty will grow to love him. We went to 3 shelters and man was our city slim pickins on cats! We ended up coming home feeling discouraged, and I went on Craigs List and found a lady offering free kittens, and she lived out in the country so we hopped back into the van and went on a little ride.

And I should point out how EASY it is to get an animal when it comes to Mike. All I have to do is say I want to go look at cats, and he says "uh-huh, sure" and before I knew it he was telling Matthew we were going to go get a kitty today. Works every single time with that man. He is a sucker for a new baby in the house. Makes me wonder how easy it would be to talk him into a new baby, BABY. No, I won't...but makes me wonder, for sure.

So we drive out to the country and low and behold, there are the kitties, so which one do we choose? Sooo many choices! In the end we picked him because he has two cute little spots on his back, and he was a sweetie. I should also mention he despises the dogs so far, and he is pretty stressed out. Maddie just wants to befriend him, and Riley is like staying far away from him, yet Figaro freaks out at the pure sight of the dogs. Hopefully in a couple of weeks things have mellowed out.

What did I get myself into?