how to feed a cat, by pratt.

step one: get your mom to help you open the cat food container. or if you're like me, you've already ripped off the top of the container so you can play in the cat food anytime you want. or the trash. cause i like to play in the trash too.



step two: dip the cat's food bowl into the food. scooping it with the bowl as not to get your hands "chewy chewy". (yucky, whatever. this is what we call it. he can say "chewy chewy".)

an aside. there are so many great things about that picture. one. he only has on one sock. two. you can see our recycling bin behind him. one of them. for paper. andy and clara, are you proud of me? three. that shelf directly behind pratt is his own shelf. it houses his foods. so he is able to get whatever he wants from there and eat it. and finally, look how excited he is about feeding yoda. precious.



step three: carry the bowl ever so carefully to where your kitty cat eats. if you need to, you can hold the bowl completely against your shirt so you don't spill any pieces.





step four: bend down and roll the bowl onto its desired position.



and voila! all done!

let me add one thing. this simple "help" taught me so much. i could flip out about how he carries the bowl. i could ask him to carry it like i would carry it. or any way but to hold it against his shirt for fear of something falling out the side. maybe onto the floor.

but is it really worth it? is it really worth correcting him?

the answer i've come up with is no. absolutely not. this is the way he does it. this is the way my little boy does it.

and truth be told, i think it's a wonderful way to do it.

may i never forget this. may i never forget the life/parent/slow down and smell the roses lesson i learned today.

happy thursday.