Vote for Pedro, We Did!

With this political naughtiness going on, I thought we could lighten up the issue of voting a little. We promised Little Chief a pet when he started kindergarten. Well, this year he started 2nd grade, and still no pet. He will not let us forget that we still have not made good on that promise, trust me, he gives us daily reminders.

So when a classmate was giving away free kittens last week, Little Chief, could barely keep himself from exploding off the school bus after school. He came rushing off the bus with visions of kitty cats in his head. I promised we would go look at the kittys when Chief got home from work. Of course, Chief, pretended to have amnesia when reminded of his promise to procure a pet for our Sweet Angel Baby Boy. But finally we wore him down and he said we would look only with no promise to actually bring one home - of course, I knew that the kitty was a done deal at that point, because how is Daddy going to say no to that begging, pleading, face. Oh, and promises were flying like geese for the winter. LC promised that Daddy and Mommy would never even have to worry about food or water or cleaning the litter box, why we wouldn't even know the kitty was there.

Well, we arrived at the Cat House and there were kittys everywhere, big, little and tweeners too. The lady had a son fittingly named "Bam-Bam" who was nothing short of torturing those cats. His Mamma proceeded to tell us that Bam-Bam had an accident with one of the kittens and let's just say it involved a recliner - LC was horrified and we can't even mention the word recliner around here anymore for fear of another round of upset. So needless to say, we felt it was our duty to give one of those precious felines a warm, fuzzy, home. So we voted on which one, loaded him up and saved him from any further Bam-Bam abuse.

So meet Pedro, Pedro Rodriguez or P-Rod for short. He is precious and fluffy and smart and he sure made one little boy and a couple of grown folks real happy. Cheif pretended not to like him a first, but he was the one bathing him and guess who follows Chief around like a little puppy on a string? Yep, you guessed it, this cute little fella.