Tonight dinner was strips of beef, four prawns, and one baby carrot sliced into bits.
Boy grabbed a piece from his plate, jumped down (as usual) and ate it on the ground, then peered at me asking for more. I was busy peeling his prawns and didn't want to carry him back up to the counter. He'd smell of prawns otherwise! I brought his bowl to the ground and gave him a prawn. I gobbled it down.
Kaku finished her beef, two prawns, and carrots very quickly. Sam seems to have taken to my cooking too and ate all of his beef up (no carrots though) and the prawn too. Buffy ate a few strips of beef then stopped. Tux just sat against the wall waiting for the "real food" to be served.
By the time everyone was done, there were still quite a few strips of beef and carrots left. Kaku came round to eat up the rest. She worked systematically from bowl to bowl. I even saw her crunching up two carrots! :D
Finally, all was gone and for the finicky (ahem... you know who you are, kitty cat), I served the biscuits. Tux got up in a jiffy and ran to his dinner.
"If a wet domain exists at the bottom of Enceladus' icy crust, Cassini may help to confirm it," writes Jeffrey Kargel, a research scientist with the University of Arizona's Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, in a related article in Science.
But the spacecraft, Kargel wrote, will not be able to determine whether subsurface water pockets could offer a habitat suitable for living organisms.
Old news, but Europa, on the other hand, may have a vast ocean beneath its icy crust. I'm starting to imagine ice leviathans coasting beneath. Ah... what a blissful thought. :)
With his mom sick with flu and resting, BB tried to escape today through persistent kicks in one point of his mom's belly. Fortunately either he tired after 10 minutes of constant kicks or he decided it was fruitless and would wait it out. It is possible he watched Aliens through his mom's tummy with his infrared vision and got that idea but his mom reckons it is really genetic.
There have been tales of his mom's toddler years when she allegedly escaped from 2 cribs. The first, a blue wooden one, had its bars shaken persistently till they broke, and then the prisoner escaped. The second crib was made of a soft fabric mesh, which allowed the prisoner to climb out, using her toes and fingers, to freedom!
BB's mom has decided to reinforce his crib bars but will reward creative escapes with a secret proud mom smile. :)
I bought fresh chicken from Cold Storage on Friday night with the kids'
Aunt Joyce and so the kids had chicken dinner on Saturday afternoon and
tonight. One more portion for tomorrow night.
Tux is the most cheerful and amiable chap and I have never heard him
growl ever. Yesterday he wasn't too keen on the chicken as I fed them
biscuits first, but tonight, he growled at Sam and Kaku for sniffing
near his chicken. His Dad says he growled the previous time he enjoyed
his chicken too. Towards the end of his meal (and was most likely full), he did relent and let his lover Sam have a bite. :p
Kaku finished her chicken both days in Olympic time. I was surprised
but today just proved it is true. :) Sam and Buffy tuck in with relish
now, and I was delighted to see Tux chomping his food even though he
placidly sat in the kitchen and watched yesterday.
Boy chased a piece of chicken off the counter and I brought his dish
down to the ground. It was sweet to watch both Boy and Tux eat almost
side by side. :)
Just for fun, I slipped 3 small bits of carrot amid the chicken. Kaku
finished hers! :o I will return later to check if the other two (which
ended up in Tux's dish) got eaten up.
The kids looked very forlorn when their portions were gone and I placated them with some biscuits. More tomorrow!
Last night I slept like a baby. Of course I'd worked till 11pm and got home around 1130pm. Had a shower, chatted with the hubby, agonised some about the reflux, and then I was out like a light.
Tonight I played all my cards right. Had a light dinner (maybe too light), minimal reflux, played and won a game of HOMMV, read a chapter of Sagan's Billions & Billions, and turned out the light. BB moved a little and went to sleep along with his Daddy.
I must have tossed and turned for an hour and finally gave up. So here I am, in my more placid skin, reading cat blogs and writing in my own. I had a glass of milk and Nestum, and show little signs of dozing.
At the very least, Friday night I will keel over in exhaustion.
Later she went out for some sun and she and Sam were undecided on whether to Play-Fight or Groom (see video). But by evening, the siblings who have been spending more time together recently, sought refuge atop the dryer for a quiet nap.
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." -- Bertrand Russell
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
-- Thomas Edison (Harper's Magazine, 1890)
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