Lucy goes to the vet

Well, we're about to go to the vet. Yesterday afternoon, Joey and I noticed that Lucy's left eye looked a little red and just ever so slightly swollen. By 7:00 that evening, it had gotten definitively worse, but I still thought a trip to the vet was a bit much. However, by this morning, her eye looked like this:

Even Louis, who hates touching or being touched by Lucy, was licking her eye (cute and gross!). So we are headed to the vet now to see what happened. I suspect that she injured her eye while playing her favorite game, "Let's knock over the Christmas tree!"

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

This year is the first time in many that I have been extremely excited about Christmas! Joey and I went out last night to search for the perfect, live, local Christmas tree, but alas! they were all too large for our apartment. However, we did not want to leave the tree lot empty handed, so we purchased a handmade wreath made of live greens (pictures to come).

Inspired by the Selby (and Pawloski) tradition of generic stockings with silver glitter fabric paints, we also purchased four small ones. They are now hung on the ceiling with care in hopes that the patron saint of kitties soon will be there!

And of course our sweet kitties helped to decorate (Lucy helped to set up the tree) and then posed for our Christmas card!