It's a bittersweet symphony, this life...

My sweet cat of twelve years, TayTay passed on this morning. She lived with my parents, and unfortunately I haven't been able to see her since they moved to a different town earlier this year. That's probably a good thing though, since it seems she started deteriorating around that time. We didn't have a definitive diagnosis, but we think it was some type of cancer that ended up in her brain. The important thing is that she isn't suffering anymore, and she's in heaven playing with her sister Tweets, who passed a few months ago.

Well, I guess I'll update you on our life since once again, it's been forever! lol Abby continues to grow like a weed... She's now 28.4 lbs, which we know because they had to weigh her in the ER the other night. Poor Boo has had an awful viral infection (most likely roseola infantum) all week and still isn't feeling her best... evidenced by the fact she is currently napping and has been for FOUR hours!!!

She hasn't started walking quite yet, at least I'm not counting it as such. On occasion, she will take a few steps on her own but that's about it. It's just a confidence issue at this point...as soon as she feels she can do it on her own, she'll be off and running! She has stood up without pulling up one time, and that was out in the yard, the last time she played out there before getting sick (and before this awful heat wave!) I guess she just has too much to pull up on in the house, because I haven't seen her attempt it in here! lol

Her vocabulary is already growing too... The other day, she got all kinds of excited when I brought out her tray of spaghetti and she squealed, "sketti!" She can also say Abby, yeah, and "tee-tee", which for some odd reason, is her name for Elmo. I kinda wonder if she thinks Elmo is a puppy, because I've heard her call our friends' Great Dane the same thing on occasion... lmao We have been also working with her on sharing... we play this little game where whenever she has a sippy cup, we ask her if she'll share with us. She hands us the cup, we pretend to take a drink (since it's usually filled with formula... yuck!) hand it back to her and say thank you! She thinks this is hilarious...

Not much new going on with me and D... He got a 1990 Harley for Father's Day (and his b-day, anniversary, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Rosh Hashanah, and Canada Day... for the next five years... lol) and has been out riding a lot. I've been pretty unsuccessful with my job search so far, but thus is the job market these days. I'm not too sad about that though... I think it's gonna be really rough on me to put Abby in daycare. Plus I've been dealing with more flare ups of my fibromyalgia and they literally suck the life force out of me! I have found that taking a magnesium supplement has really helped though! I was having awful pain and nerve twitches at night when trying to fall asleep... since starting the magnesium, I haven't had much of a problem with that!

I leave with these pictures of cuteness...