white cat, white cat, covered in tea

Julian is a bad cat. He does things every day that make me want to kill him and it’s just a very good thing for him that he’s cute. Just a moment ago I looked down and saw Julian playing on the kitchen floor. He was running and sliding and flipping around on the tiles like a fish. A closer look revealed what was going on—he had gotten a hold of a tea bag and he’d somehow managed to bite it open to get at the loose tea, which he then spread all over the kitchen floor so he could play in it. I called Eli in to look at what was happening in the kitchen and what he did is brilliant beyond words. Eli flipped Julian over onto his back and ran his body along the floor. Static electricity caused the loose tea to stick to Julian’s fur and once all the tea was stuck to the cat, Eli walked over to the basement door and put Julian down on the stairs. He’ll shake the tea off in the basement and we don’t have to sweep anything up. Brilliant!

I was shopping for books on Amazon while Julian was destroying a tea bag two feet away from me. This is what I’m getting:

Books for Joey:
Diary of a Worm
The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Book for me:
Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth

I know a lot of you guys have kids, so if you know any books that are especially great, please suggest them to me. I’m getting tired of the selection we have around here, and I'm getting desperate. If I have to read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? one more time I am going to set it on fire and hurl it off the back deck. And that will just scare the baby.