6 posts tagged “cat”

Bubble Toes demonstrates that she is a better person than me.

In my defense the cat stuck her own head into the kleenex box.

I think that I am an adequately intelligent person. However, one of Bubble Toe's books has me stumped.

I get this one: And this one: This one, too: I even get this one: And this one: And this one, although who says "grotty": And this one might be a stretch, but I see where they're going: But this one! This one I just don't get. What in the world is a "potty cat" and why is it flying? Help us out Voxers! Solve The Mystery of the Potty Cat.

So Bubble Toes loves our cat. She smiles every time she gets a glimpse of her and tries desperately to grab and pull out all of her fur and/or yank off her ears pet her. Here is a video of the cat teasing Bubble Toes by watching her seal crawl all the way over just to walk away as soon as she is within grabbing petting distance. I think the cutest part is when Bubble Toes gets frustrated and hits the carpet as if she's saying, "Hey, where are you going, get back over here!"

A magnet surfer kitty cat picture frame. Picture of Morgan to be inserted soon.

Show us your pets.
Submitted by Prakash Daniel.

We have never co-slept with Bubble Toes...not that I'm saying that people who do co-sleep are wrong or anything, and this post is not meant to start any sort of debate about the pro's and con's of co-sleeping. Instead I want to share a phenomenon that both Chris and I experienced during the first few months of Bubble Toes life. 

As I said our baby has never slept in bed with us. However, our cat does. She often resides either between us at chest level or between the knees of one of us. She has been doing this for years and we have become adept at

tossing and turning during the night without worrying about disturbing her. She's a cat, she'll go back to sleep. I offer this information as a possible explanation for what I am about to describe.

So after Bubble Toes was born she slept in a bassinet next to our bed for the first 3 months. This allowed me to check on her multiple times a night without even getting out of bed. I also would do middle of the night nursing right in bed with the lights out. Of course, this meant that I would be close to falling asleep the whole time. But never once did I fall asleep with the baby in my arms. I always stayed awake for her feeding and burping and after putting her back into her bassinet I would then go back to sleep. All without getting out of bed. It was a nice system.

So why then would I wake up in panic thinking that the baby was in bed with us and about to fall off the edge? Almost every night for 3+ months I would wake up at least once during the night panicked that the baby was in our bed and somehow in danger. The fear would only subside after I patted down the bed looking for the baby. I wasn't alone in this. Chris, too, would wake me up (not every night, but often) to ask

where the baby was. For some reason both of us would somehow forget after falling asleep that we had put Bubble Toes back into her bed where she was sleeping contentedly. This even happened after she stopped nursing at night and after she had moved into her crib in her own room, although it hasn't happened for a long time now.

So I ask again, are we weird? Is this something that happens to other people too? Do you think it is caused by sleeping with the cat who is a warm little lump in bed with us, similar to a baby, or some other issue?