Murphy and Moving

Since we don't have kids to blog about, I will be blogging today about our feline child. Now, whenever there is commotion going on in the house Murphy has a hard time dealing with it. For example, the Friday before our wedding, Tracy and I were running around the apartment packing two cars full of stuff we needed for the rehearsal that night and the wedding the next day. We wouldn't be coming back until Sunday afternoon so we wanted to make sure we got everything. With all the running back and forth and the hurry we still needed to get changed, and the 20 million reviews of the checklist, it was all too much for our little Murphy to handle. So, she puked. Twice. I'm standing there in heels, make-up, hair all done and in a beautiful rehearsal dress cleaning up cat puke. Lovely. So based on that experience I was not looking forward to the move that was about to be happening in a month. She actually handled the packing and the moving better than I expected. She didn't puke, but I mean really. Why would she? I wasn't all dressed up! While I was going through my drawers and purging things I didn't need anymore, Murphy decided she was going to go exploring.....into the hole where the drawer went.

I couldn't believe she jumped in there. It's not a very big hole and it was 4 drawers up! And Murphy is not exactly a spring chicken anymore! Crazy kitty for sure!

When we got to our new place we were very excited to see how she was going to like the stairs. Murphy has never climbed any stairs in her 11 years so this was going to be a new experience. We let her out of her cat carrier upstairs and she immediately took refuge in our closet. Which, as Cat learned when she kitty sat Murphy when we were on our honeymoon, is exactly the place she goes to hide. She spent all of Saturday rolled up like a ball in the closet deciding if she was going to come out or not. Finally Saturday night she did. As a proud mama, I took a picture of her first stair climb!

All these pictures were taken off my cell phone so sorry for the not so great quality! But these were her first stair steps and I was glad I got to take a picture of them. Now that we've been here almost a week, she loves running up and down them and playing on them. Who would have thunk it?!?!?!

So, maybe because this place is new or something she has really been exploring some pretty unusual spots. The other day I was putting some things away in the linen closet and she walked right up to it and went right in and sat down. Behind the towels.

She normally comes out once she realized you are closing the door on her!

She has also decided she is going to inspect any open box.

She used to sleep through the night. Not anymore. Too many places to explore and things to do. She really enjoys jumping on us early in the morning to see if we are awake. Is this what having children is going to be like??? We maybe reconsidering! =)

Love,

Suzanne