G. Knerd

Here’s another episode in the Saga of Monkey Kitty and the Knitting.  It probably says something that I reached for the camera before saving the hat.  The same behavior (and the laughing) probably also taught him that his behavior was okay.  Whoops.

It started with him stealing one of my skiing hats out of the office while the Blanket Thief wasn’t looking and running downstairs with it.  Unfortunately for him (and luckily for the hat), I was sitting downstairs and saw him as soon as his feet hit the first level.

At first, he seemed to be a bit nervous about having an audience:

"Uh...Daddy? Could you go back upstairs, please?"

Then he went back to sniffing the hat:

"Mmmm...wool...yummy..."

And then he disguised some chewing as snuggling with the hat.  Don’t be fooled, though – he had some yarn between his teeth for this shot.

"Nom, nom, nom"

But then, the stress of having an audience seemed to get the better of him, and he collapsed under the weight of the camera.

"It's no fun if you're watching!"

Quickly thereafter, the hat was taken back to its rightful place in the hat box in the closet, out of reach of adventurous kitties.  Despite a couple slightly-more-frayed bits of yarn, there’s no real damage…at least, not to this hat…