On the afternoon of Election Day, I was glued to the computer looking at the Electoral College map. It was less an interest in politics, and more an interest in anything involving maps! I made a special announcement every time Biden or Trump won another state.
And then the whole next day…I basically just stared at the map some more.
We celebrated a socially distanced Halloween this year!
First, we carved pumpkins and Sunnie was very curious about this ritual.
We also made a sign for our candy table.
I dressed up as an orange tabby, like Sunnie! Meow!
We didn’t knock on doors this year, but our town did a lot of candy tables, bowls, and chutes.
How awesome is this black cat pumpkin someone painted?
Despite the unusual Halloween, I still brought in a big candy haul! My favorites were Sour Patch Kids and Kit Kats.
As usual, I’ve been doing tons of drawings, both at school and at home. Here are some of them!
For school, I drew a picture of something I did over the summer.
I also drew about something you could do to go from being a “Bad Seed” to a “Good Egg.”
This is a drawing about how we learn by making mistakes.
This is a drawing of me imagining if six cats could drive.
I followed a drawing tutorial at school to draw a happy ice cream cone.
And I did another drawing tutorial to draw a bat.
At home, I love to draw roller coasters like Kingda Ka! This is one where Kingda Ka rolled back.
Here are a bunch of people about to ride Kingda Ka.
Here are some of the rivers you cross to drive from Portland to Seattle.
Here is the Queensboro Bridge and a New York City skyscraper.
I love to draw cats and this is an orange tabby, like Sunnie!
Finally, here is a cat in a crate going on a car ride.
Once a week, I have a live Zoom science class. We drew our hands and thought of things we wondered about. I wondered how our fingers move.
I invented a new game called Cat Ball and sometimes we play it out in the yard when Daddy is on lunch break.
Sunnie is feeling much more comfortable in our house. She comes out to play and lounge around.
She loves Finley. They love to play together…
…and nap together.
They LOVE cardboard boxes. Every time we get a new box, we just throw it in the living room.
She’s still mostly scared of us humans, but Finley loves to hang out with me.
We hung up some paper bats for Halloween and Finley was VERY interested in them.
He also continues to be king of the naps.
The roller coaster that I made for Finley looked like so much fun, I had to take a ride on it, too.
I made Finley his own roller coaster and it turns out he’s a born coaster enthusiast.
He also continues to be a mischief maker. He pulled the vent right out of the floor and started exploring.
And after all that playing, he likes to take a nap in his cat tree.
For the first couple of weeks after Sunnie joined our family, Finley didn’t like her. Even though they still fight once in a while, they’re now best friends!
I went to the doctor to get my flu shot. How do you like my face mask? It has cats on it. And they’re wearing…face masks.
