Late August cuteness

A couple photos from the second half of the month:

Simon sleeps clutching his own paws, as if they might float away!

Chilling on the windowsill, per usual. I love those matching green eyes!!

Simon the lap kitty

Simon is such a lap boy!  He does this most mornings now that I'm not going to class every day.  The moment I plop into the rocking chair to job-search, he sniffs at me until I move my laptop and then jumps up and does this (forgive the sideways iPad-video):

His other favorite time to jump in my lap is... when I'm sitting on the toilet.  There are no pictures of that for obvious reasons (though we might have to stage one just to show how cute it is!)

Bug-hunting

Today a ladybug got into the house and was creeping around on the wall, making River go into huntress mode. Then there were moths at the window teasing Simon, and everybody was in a bug-hunting stupor.
 This is the Instragram photo of Simon staring at the ladybug:

Here's both of them trying to telepathically make the ladybug fall off the wall so they could play with it:

And here's some video of the cuteness:

Ear rubs, morning and evening

More ear rubs! Morning and evening!! All day every day!!!! :-)

I think these cats picked us because they could tell they would get spoiled with this kind of affection for their entire lives.

Locomoting floompen

The cats have been doing the "locomoting floompen" for as long as we've had them, but I finally got it on video!  It happens sometimes in a few of the previous videos, but this is a nice example of how River pulls herself along on the carpet while she is floomped.

Both cats were lazily dealing with how hot it was on this particular day.

The morning sillies

River gets the morning sillies, playing and jumping around with the crocheted ball from Auntie Erin!  Then both cats demonstrate their tendency to think that any time anyone walks into the kitchen it's to get kitty treats...

Windowsill adventures

Can't believe I hadn't posted this yet!  It's from early July.  I finished editing it with that swath of other videos, but then had to do homework and forgot to put it on YouTube.

Ah well, here 'tis!