Cookie the Cat

Meet our cat Cookie. We adopted her when our neighbors moved a while ago, and we miss those neighbors by the way! The kids wanted to adopt her right away but I was adamantly opposed! Then one day I saw our little Nathan (before he was talking to any of us very much) sitting on the back porch talking to Cookie the cat and sharing his apple with her--for almost an hour! She just sat there next to him and let him love her and my heart started to melt. Later that day when I went to get him after nap time I saw she had jumped in his window and was sleeping next to him on his bed with his little arm around her. So I decided that Cookie the cat was part of Nathan's learning process and we adopted her! A few weeks after that Cookie didn't have much to do with Nathan any more--the girls were probably safer. I find it interesting how animals can sense our needs. For the past couple of days Nathan had a high fever and did not feel well. Finally, one night I had to put him down and do some cleaning. About halfway through my work I looked over and there was Cookie snuggling Nathan because I couldn't and he was sick. It was so cute I had to take a picture!