Mouse in the house and sleep

So my ever fearless cat Pazzo sat and stared at the radiator cover all morning. I knew something was up but tried to ignore it and hoped it would go away. He continued to stare until I could no longer ignore the obvious. There was something under my radiator. I lifted the cover and as I suspected there was a tiny field mouse. I got all girly and shrieked a few times and then tried to figure out how I was going to catch the icky thing and dispose of it. The easiest thing to do in this situation is to just let Pazzo have some fun and he is good at it. That is what you get for picking up a cat from the mean streets of NYC. Poor Artemis wouldn't be able to catch a dead mouse because he had a cushy life in a nice home in Alabama. He does sometime pretend to be tough but usually this involves knocking the trashcan over to get some discarded meat. Unfortunately for me mice are quick and small and it soon became a game of run under this couch, now back to the radiator and under the loveseat, although Pazzo was enjoying the entertainment. He even took a few breaks in the action much to my dismay. I ended up turning the couches over, after taking the cushions off, removing both radiator covers, and getting a broom. I don't have pictures of the aftermath of this project but it was a mess. On the plus side I got to clean all the dust and kitty hair out from under my couches, which I have been meaning to do for months. Clever kitty, Pazzo, did eventually get the mouse and ran away to play around with it. I followed him got a bag, scooped it up and threw it away. Poor Pazzo wasn't even able to partially eat it. Mean while T is yelling at me and asking why he is being ignored and put in a corner. I told T that he would have to wait I was giving love to my other son. I am so proud of my kitty. This is the second time he has caught a mouse for us. Turns out he is cute and cunning.

Here is a dramatization of the action
(not a real mouse)

In other news T's Mom has decided enough is enough with these sleep shenanigans. T was a fussy newborn and we eventually found that to get him to stop crying we could use a pacifier. It worked great and he began to cry less and less. I remember my sister saying something along the lines of him using it for sleep and I told her that "Oh T doesn't use it for sleeping he only uses it when he is cranky" Ha, that my friends is the new mother talking. Another famous new mother line is "Oh my 1 day old baby hardly ever cries and he sleeps great!" Ha ha ha. I think I may have actually said that to. Well T has become extremely dependent on his pacifier. He will cry and cry when going down for sleep and then when you stick the pacifier in his mouth his eyes roll up into his head and he is asleep within minutes. It is quite funny however I am beginning to think that this dependence on the pacifier for sleep is not helping our nighttime sleep situation. Today we tried cold turkey. T cried hysterically for 1/2 an hour then I let him nurse and he calmed down and went to sleep. His next nap he only cried for 5 minutes. and his last nap there was no crying. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of getting up all night to replace the plug. Wish me luck.