Athene Numphe

Over the weekend Natasha made some progress on using the cat door to get into and out of her cage. For the past week, she's been willing to push her way in as long as Aerith or I would coax her head into the right position and hold her gently. However, she still wasn't coming out without one of us holding the flap open for her. Over the weekend she got better about putting her head to the door, but she still needs a light reassuring touch. The best thing to happen over the weekend is that she figured out how to push her way back out of the cat door all by herself. She still wants one of us on the other side coaxing her, but she'll do the work on her own. We are really excited about this progress and hope that soon she'll figure out that she doesn't even need us there at all. I look at this as good practice for potty training in a few years.

In other news, I'm now 30 weeks pregnant and there's a new post on my pregnancy blog.

Also, it's Pi Day. Happy Pi Day! I was supposed to make a pie for work, but I totally flaked. I think I'll make one when I get home. It'll go with the cottage pie that Aerith is planning on making today.

Here is what Pi sounds like:

Today we had the First (Annual?) King Family (Minor) Pi Day Pie Potluck.

We had 3 different dinner pies (meat pie, cottage pie, and chicken pot pie) and two dessert pies (apple pie and chocolate meringue pie) as well as cookies with π on them in icing, pi-napple juice, pi-napple and pi-na colata jelly beans in a pi plate (cause crabes also has the pi plate).

I'm glad my apple pie went over so well. I was a little worried because I forgot to "dot the filling with small pieces of butter", but that didn't seem to matter because the pie was really really good. I used the "How to Cook Everything" pie crust recipe and the apple filling recipe from "More from Magnolia".

Everyone hung out and talked and had a good time (I think). Then after a bunch of people left, Bouncy, Blonde, iskanderia, noeticist, lordaerith, and I watched Top Secret, which most of them had never seen. Such a fun movie!

And, after midnight, we ritualistically stabbed noeticist with a foam weapon. So, on that note, it's bed time for me. HAPPY IDES OF MARCH EVERYONE!