So what is I SPY? Well, it's a neat little weekly feature one very talented & entertaining Little Miss Mamma started. I found it last week but it was too late to join in on the fun. This week, however, I am on top of things!
This week's I SPY is: Favorite things around your home. Easy enough! When I think of my favorite things around my home I don't think of things, I think of those who inhabit it. Those like...
Our newest edition to our crazy household. Remington, who at this moment in life is too hard to photograph when he's not dead asleep. Last week all I could get was shots like this...
This week I've gotten shots like this...
I think he was a bit displeased I got a front facial shot. He's getting really great at giving me these "Ugh, Mom!" looks...
Then we have Parker, who at 17 years old, doesn't do much but sleep...
Though she makes sure she is near by, if not right on top of me when she is doing so. Since she had parked herself on the couch next to me since the moment I sat down there wasn't many chances of getting any other shots of her during the first round of photos. She refused to remove herself from this position until I'd put the camera away and gave her her second favorite phrase, "Let's go night-nights!" First being the up most important, "FOODS! Park, get your fresh food!" Since she is pretty much deaf hand signals accompany each phrase.
Luckily, last night she was more willing to play along. She must have gotten her nap time in earlier in the day...
I'm pretty sure she thinks this is her best side. I have a zillion photo's of her looking off in this direction.
Either that or she likes to play hard to get because it gets her more attention, which is too much for her to ignore for too long...
And last but not least, we have Cyrus... who loves attention. He sits patiently by while someone else is getting photographed and then promptly forgets every great pose he was waiting in and does stuff like this...
He is not possessed...his eyes are just ALWAYS dilated for some reason.
This was the first photo I got where his eyes weren't completely closed or his head completely down or away from the camera.
I'm pretty sure the camera flash bothers his sensitive eyes, which you can't tell but are a beautiful blue. He's trying to keep his ears forward as to hear what the camera is doing but he's getting annoyed & starting to do what I refer to as "owl ears", the sure sign of annoyance.
Luckily, he and I were both patient and we got him at his best...
He's such a pretty boy, isn't he?! Not looking too shabby for 10 years old now is he?
The wooden fence/birdhouse was a bargain buy at Marshall's or some such store a few years ago and I embellished it with an extra butterfly & bird from my craft box. In all it cost me less than $10. I love it. Its so simple but so relaxing to look at.
Then my most favorite decoration is a Christmas gift from my niece, Elizabeth, this last Christmas....
She did it herself and it was an extremely thoughtful gift. The photo's are of our grandparents, Hazel (Nana) and Art (Pop), who raised me. While Beth is in her early 20's her craft expertise is usually in the flower bows, tutu's & sowing range so something like this was a pleasant surprise. One that made me tear up when I opened it. I do not have a permanent spot for it yet so I put it on my book/movie shelf so I can see it anytime I'm in my room.
And I SPY a pillow my sister, Sherri, made me...
Then on second look I SPY birds, birds and more birds with a little cats, cats and more cats...
In the living room...
A little birdhouse I made...
In the kitchen/hall/dining room...
In the bathroom...
I SPY various signs of changes that have occurred since Remington joined us back in Oct...
This bowl used to sit on the coffee table. After a mishap, a re-gluing of the little bird on the side & an addition of the white & purple flowers from another birdhouse to save them from being eaten by Remington it now lives on the TV stand. The other bird sitting on one of the balls is an addition too but for the life of me now I can't remember where the little bird used to go.
I notice the blank spots in the areas flanking the TV stand, the spots where ivy topiaries used to sit...
Both Remington & Parker are to blame for this one. Remington would pluck off the leaves and chew them up, while Parker would eat the mossy stuff filling in the boxes.
This mirror used to be covered (top, bottom & shutters) with little nic-knacks...mostly birds, birdhouses and cats.
What hasn't been removed by me was eaten, stolen & lost, or destroyed by Remington. He even went so far as to knock the whole thing off the wall. Luckily, it didn't fall on him because its heavy enough to have killed him. Oh, and he was only 3 months old at the time.
As we move from the living room I see a super cute basket that saves the toilet paper from being ripped to shreds and scattered about the WHOLE apartment, thank you Remington...
It used to sit on the floor next to the toilet but it now sits on top of the litter box to save it from being peed on, thank you Parker.
There are also fun signs of Remington being added to our lives. He loves to strew toys from one end of the apartment to the other...
There's about 4 of these strings various places. The best place I found one was last weekend, "wrapped around" me in bed. I think it was an offering so I'd wake up & feed him.
The cat toys are never in the cat toy basket anymore...
This is a shot of just the ones sitting around the basket. There are far more under the kitchen table, on the kitchen floor & under any furniture that has an opening under it.
He wasn't interested in the toys last night until I gave them attention...
Which is the exact same thing that happens when we pick them all up and put them away.
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