Dont Jump Where There Are Plants

AYLA: Well, I got in trouble again! I saw a new window where I wanted ta look out. I could see there was something on the windowsill, but I jumped so that I would land on in top of it. How was I sposed ta know that it wasnt attached ta the windowsill?

I mean, I MEAN, why would The Big Thing put fally-down stuff onna windowsill when he knows I like ta look out windows and am a champion jumper?

[Ayla, in 4 months, you never jumped up on that high windowsill. I know you didn't because it was dusty! And it is the same view you see when looking out the kitchen window or deck doors - TBT]

Well, yeah, but this time I wanted to see out THAT window ta see if there was something different ta see. So annyways, I jumped up on top of the stuff there. CHEESES, the whole place fell apart! I went down and the stuff I jumped on fell down!

It turns out that The Big Thing (who I will say was marvelously tolerant of the event (and because he is reading over my backside as I type) was growing "leetuce" in a inside windowbox. Apparently that stuff is his version of eating grass (and why he doesnt just eat grass I dont know - the stuff is efrywhere outside)!

It was a mess! And of course it hadda be in the middle of the night, so he was sleepin right there an turned on the light in time ta see me runnin out of the room... Busted!

[I would have known who it was anyway. Skeeter and LC haven't ever jumped up there - TBT]

At least all the little plant-leetuce dirt-holders fell right-side-up! They seem ta all be OK. But still, he did that awful looking-at-me-over-the-top-of-his-eyeglasses thing. And he made me stay in that little room wif him while he cleaned up an put the planties back on the windowsill. All the time telling me NOT ta jump up there annymore, and how much he wants those things ta grow.

I HATE bein lektured!

But then he got back inta bed and called me ta come up. I did, cawshusly, and he scritched me fer a long time. While he was doin that, he was remindin me it wasnt a reward, but ta let me know he unnerstans when I makes mistakes, but not ta to THAT one again!

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