Kitty Meow Meow

Here's a photo of Jacob with one of his very favorite Christmas presents.  This was taken by Robin on Christmas morning just after he opened this present.  Before Christmas, I had to hide it's box way behind the tree because any movement near it would send it off purring and meowing and scratching around... and loudly!  When I picked it up from Toys R Us, it meowed all the way home.  Freakishly realistic!  You can see though how much Jacob loves it!

  He wanted to name it Kalani like his favorite cat of ours but I suggested he pick a different name and he decided on "Kitty Meow Meow" which is what it does all the time.  His dad is allergic to cats so this is the next best thing for him to have at home.

No one ever knows what to get me for Christmas as I really don't have a lot of things I need.  When you are an adult, if you need/want something, you usually go out and get it.  It made shopping for me very frustrating (so I'm told) so I came up with an idea of something I could "hint" for in the future.  Jeff bought me a starter Pandora bracelet and it's going to be my "traveler charm bracelet" with charms of places we travel to.  I can ask for an Eiffel Tower charm or a London Double Decker Bus charm, etc... you get the idea.  Here's a photo of it as it is right now with only a pineapple charm representing Hawaii.  The other beads are part of the starter set except for the pinkish charm which is an opal- my October birthstone.

The next charm I plan to get is the "Passport Charm" which looks like THIS.  But first I need to actually get my passport which is hard because the photo I took is so awful but I may just have to make the best of it and send it in.  Or maybe I need to find a better place than Costco to have my passport picture taken! 

If I don't get back here before the 1st, Happy 2014!