lava and sabotage.

remember when i told you that juliet was afraid of the floor?

so we used to have a nice rug on our living room floor, but someone {ahem, dinger} has started clawing at it, so i took it up for now. since then, juliet has been afraid of the floor. she wants as little contact with the hardwood as possible... most of the time her running start to get up on the couch ends with her faceplanting into the side of the couch and running away with shame. poor thing. but it's funny. but i try not to laugh.

on to another note, not much has been happening around here lately. austin's been working, i've been nanny-ing, and juliet & dinger have been holding down the house {which means sleeping, of course}. we did make a little pizza dinner the other night. and apparently, austin decided he was going to go pro by tossing the pizza dough into the air. secretly, i was hoping that disaster would ensue, but i suppose it's a good thing he kept it under control, or else we would have had no dinner...

we've also had some minor setbacks on our gardening. after all the growth we had, things started to go downhill. all our little seedlings started to look droopy {even though they were well-watered} and some even shriveled up completely.

and now...

pretty much nothing is left standing. it looks like the only real survivors are my cucumber plants. i've been baffled. why was everything going so well and then the sudden change? well, ladies and gents, i've figured it out...

we have a saboteur.

and his name is dinger. i started piecing things together around the time he chewed on my big new houseplant {which i found out is actually posionous to cats} and my indoor daffodils... then i noticed the flag plant markers were mostly uprooted. that darn cat. fortunately, we've got plenty of seeds left, which we plan to plant directly into the garden. it may take a little bit longer, but fingers crossed we'll still be eating homegrown vegetables all summer long. and i've got this weekend off from nanny-ing, so we hope to get the garden planted this weekend. let's hope for good weather!