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Katie loves cats, so her giving ours lots of love and attention isn't at all unusual. Recently, however, it went beyond affection, progressing more in the life coaching direction. I was sitting in our living room, minding my own business, when I looked up from whatever I was doing to see my youngest child lecturing Tulip the kitty about being 56 in human years and still living at home.
Tulip was held like a baby, gently held accountable for her failure to launch into productive adulthood, and sent on her way, but not before I grabbed a photo to document the occasion. You can see by her expression how she feels about this little intervention, but after documenting Katie's lecture, I found another possible source of her feline frustration: Proof that she was ridden by a pig earlier in the day. I unearthed evidence of the kitty-pig rodeo action as I was scrolling through my phone's photos and discovered that Katie had done her version of photo-bombing, where she leaves these little pictorial presents for me. (She does this every so often). Katie told me I couldn't delete the photo because it was a picture of my grandson, Wilbur, who's chilling there with Tulip. Katie then told me that after Wilbur rode Tulip, Katie found him playing with my phone, trying to take a selfie. When Katie grabbed the phone from Wilbur, the story went, he snapped the action shot seen below. So not only do I have a trans-species grandchild I didn't know about, he is apparently quite mischievous. Later, Katie brought Wilbur out of her room, saying she had talked with him and that he wanted to apologize to me for using my phone without permission, which he proceeded to do, with Katie translating, as I apparently don't speak stuffed pig. I think the larger lesson here is that if you want to hang with us, you just have to be prepared for whatever comes. Meeting grandkids you didn't know you had, pigs riding cats, talking stuffed animals, interspecies life advice from a 14-year old....all on the table.
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