the kitty

Well lately i have been bugging ben to get a dog-luckily he keeps saying no because really i don't need another little creature to have to potty train- anyhow so we decided to compromise and get a free kitten for a week -well we got one and of course gracie LOVES it- she takes 'the kitty'-that is the kittys name i didn't want to name it and get too attached so we call it 'the kitty' -and puts him in the baby swing, in the bathtub, at the dinner table, in her blanket. . . she carries 'the kitty' everywhere-these pictures don't show it but if you could see her arms you would see that that sometimes 'the kitty' doesn't appreciate being drug from place to place-

i have to watch gracie closely though because she already is showing signs of having a temper because when the kitty doesn't do what she says she picks the kitty up and yells at him to stop with a delayed please -because we are trying to learn that if we say stop then we need to say stop please- and then chucks him across the room-which i promise is not how i parent hahaha - but at other times watching them play together is the cutest thing and melts my heart -

it was really funny -after getting scratched so much she found this old basket in the garage and so she would put 'the kitty' in it and carry him to avoid being scratched and then the funniest part is she puts him in the basket on bens skateboard and then gets on herself and pushes the two of them around the driveway-it is very ingenious on her part -