Happy Valentine's Day!

I gotted a speshul surprise inna mail -- and I just knew it had to be frum my beeyootiful sweetiepie, Ariel!



Lookit the beeyootiful Valentine she sended me. It sez, "Mao, Be My Valentine." Always and fureffur, sweetiepie! purrr, purrr, purrr, purrr, purrr....



And here's what her sweet cardie to me sez inside...



Thankies so much, sweetiepie -- I love the card, and I love YOU!

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Earl Grey, Tazo, and Titus, the Furry Kids, sended us Ballicai a Valentine's Day package! Here's Dorydoo, checking it out -- she knew it camed from her sweetiepie, EG!



And when Momma opened the boxie, I came in and helped Dorydoo sniff efurrything. Wowie kazowie, looks like there's some superduper stuffies in here!



And before Momma could pull anything out to show us Ballicai, I gotted in the box!



We gotted four -- count 'em, four! -- 'nip raviolis. One for each of us Ballicai!



And we gotted some super-primo organic 'nip -- y-y-yeah! We Ballicai are gonna nip out!



And here's a fabyoolus fishin pole toy -- man oh man, that's gonna be so much funsies!



The Furry Kids sended me some straws and some coffee stirrurs, too -- yippee yay yay yay! The coffee stirrurs are kolored peppurmint so they'll make me extra-spazzy, and lookie at these straws -- they bend at the end!



The Furry Kids sended us Ballicai an adorabble Valentine's Day Cardie. Here's the front...



And here's what it sez inside: a furry sweet message frum Titus, Tazo, and EG, and a speshul loveydovey message frum EG to Dorydoo, sendin lots of whiskie kisses!

She's sendin you whiskie kisses, too, EG, and she's purrin and purrin and purrin! She sez: "Yes, Earl -- I will be your valentine! *kissy, kissy, kiss!*



Here's me, playin with a 'nip ravioli in our cube! Check out my red lazur eye. I'm SPAZZIN'!



And now, it's video time! Here's Dorydoo, playin with a 'nip ravioli:




Here's Brainball playin with the fishin pole toy:




And here's a video where you can see me, Brainball, and Marilyn playin with the fishin pole toy:




There's also a video of Marilyn playin with a 'nip ravioli, over on her bloggie.

Thankies so much fur the wunnerful Valentine's Day package, Furry Kids! We Ballicai are havin a blast with the fun stuffies you sent. We appreshiate you so much -- you are fabyoolus, fun furriends!

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And last but not leasties, here's the cardies me, Dorydoo and Brainball maded fur our sweethearts, to entur into Skeezix's Valentine's Day Kontest:


Personalized Glitter Graphics



Build your own Blingee



Glitter Graphics

Happy Valentine's Day to Everycat With Love and Purrs From the Ballicai!

Our Halloween Kostumes

Alla us Ballicai just entured Skeezix's Halloween Kostume Kontest, and we thought we'd show off our kostumes!

Here's Brainball, as a soldier:

Here's Dorydoo, as a skeleton punk-rock girlcat:

And here's me. I'm a leprechaun with an itchy beard:

Marilyn's a fairy godmother, but she's wearin' her kostume on her bloggie.

Here's a Brainball update: he's still doin' good and feelin' bettur. Momma was so happy cuz this mornin' he woke her up not only by tryin' to kill the lip balm on her night stand but the book she's readin', too! And he's been back to his Alpha Cat patrols and is eatin' good.

But ofur the last few days, he's bekome more resistant to takin' his meds. And since he's a big sixteen pound mancat, when he's resistant, he's RESISTANT! He don't scratch or bite, but he's furry, furry strong, and he's hard to hold efun with Momma and Daddy as a team, and efun worse, he's gotted really good at spittin' out the pills.

So here's what Momma's tryin' and it's workin' so far. The v.e.t. tolded Momma it would be okeydokey to crush up Brainball's meds in foodies. And what Momma's doin' is crushin' his pills and givin' him his doses in cream cheese. Cream cheese is a purrfect consistency to get meds all mixed up in.

But Momma and Daddy still have to team up on Brainball to give him his syringe medisun and his eyedroppies. So efurryone send 'em good luck vibes -- and "take yur meds like a mancat" vibes to Brainball! Thankies so much.

Two Mancats Tuesday -- and Dorydoo Speeks!

Our wunnerful and tallented furriends Maggy and Zoey at Zoolatry did these bee-yootiful photo-portraits of me and Brainball.

The one of me is called "The Chairman":



And the one of Brainball is called "The Lion King" (how, how, how, I ask, could my silly beans or that silly furst vet have efur pegged Brainball fur a gurlcat?! lookit his MANE, fur Cat's sake!):


Momma thought these photo-portraits of Brainball and me were so bee-yootiful that her eyes got happy-leaky.

Here's an update on how my wunnerful bruther Brainball is doing: in a wurd, bettur! He's still takin' recuperative naps in Mom and Dad's closet, but he's doin' more of his Alpha Cat Patrollin', and he's eatin' good and drinkin' good. Yay! He's also usin' the baffroom good, except his #2s are kinda loosy-goosy, so Momma's keepin' a close eye onna litterboxies. Brainball's takin' his medikashuns like a trooper and is eatin' yogurt from a spoon!

Dorydoo wants to remind efurryone that her burfday is comin' up on Octobur 16 -- there'll be a pawtay onna bloggie. She'll be turnin' three years old! She's also givin' the eye to a certain handsum mancat onna Bloggiesphere, hehehe.



I send lovies to my sweetiepie Ariel, and Brainball sends lovies to his Patches Lady. And lookie here, we're sendin' roses to our ladies, too.



Update: Brainball had a bafroomie trip that was too close to diarrhea for momma's comfort, so she's givun him a kitty dose of Immodium. Askin' fur more purrs.

Update, three hours later: The Ballicus Mom here! Good news: the Immodium helped Brainball -- he hasn't had another episode of diarrhea, and we are hoping he won't. He's been on his evening Alpha Cat patrols, he's pawed at his Daddy repeatedly for rubs (he loves his Daddy's kitty massages!), and then after getting lots of rubs, he sprawled out all comfy-cozy and purred his deep, rumbly lion purr the likes of which I hadn't heard since before he got sick. *big happy cat mom grin!*

Meezer and Dual Mancat Monday!

Oh, I'm so ecksited to be sharin' this Mancat Monday with my bestest furriend and BRUTHER, Brainball!

Here's me, the Meezer Mancat...



And here's Brainball, our Big Alpha Mancat. Don't he look like a lion in this pickshure?



I'm happy to report that Brainball has been feelin' much bettur. Momma could tell right when she gotted up on Sunday. Brainball wanted his malt remedy, ecksept Momma only went through the moshuns for that. Brainball doesn't need to go back on malt right now since it ain't been so long ago that he had bad swqwirts. But Momma wants to keep Brainball inna habit of takin' malt since hairballs are an ongoing challunge for him, so he licked just about a half a speck off her fingur for the sake of keepin' up the routine.

Then alla us got Temptayshuns! Brainball gobbled his right up, he ated his dry foodies good, and when Momma dished out the stinky goodness, he ated his right up, too. We were all so happy! He's usin' the baffroom good, both numbers 1and 2. And he's gone back to jumpin' up onna baffroom sink and askin' Momma fur drinkies.

Brainball went back on limited Alpha Cat Patrols today, too! Here are some pickshures:





And here I am, helpin' Brainball patrol. When he was so sickies, I took ofur as Alpha Cat fur a little while and looked aftur him and proteckted him. Brainball sez I done good.



Brainball hadda big day on Sunday, stayed up and Brainballed around fur a long time, then he layed down to take a nappie, and I went to see what was shakin' in the KITCHEN SINK!



Then Brainball gotted up Sunday evenin' and Brainballed around some more; he efun rassled with me just a wee li'l bit, and he's been skratchin' on alla the skratchy pads! He's still eatin' good and he did some more patrollin', too. It's great to see my bruther back in action, on the way up.

Brainball's also havin' to eat yogurt 'cause he's on antibiotics. At furst he didn't like it much and Momma was thinkin' she's have to feed it to him with a syringe. But guess what -- startin' Saturday, Momma's been trainin' Brainball to like yogurt -- by usin' Temptayshuns! Brainball LOVES Temptayshuns. So on Saturday night, Momma started dippin' Temptayshuns in a little bit of yogurt, and Brainball eated the Temptayshuns with the yogurt on 'em. And by today, she was able to put big glops of yogurt on the Temptayshuns and on her fingurs, and Brainball licks it all off, then eats the Temptayshuns! Yay, yay, yay! Brainball's such a good patient.

And he's such a trooper about takin' his meds. Daddy gives those to him cuz he loves Daddy better than annybody inna wurld. It's like at medisine time, they're two Alphas on a mishun. We're all so proud of Brainball. And he gets Temptayshuns aftur meds, too! Brainball doesn't like feelin' undur the weathur, but he loves gettin' alla those Temptayshuns! hehehe

I'll keep updatin' this postie, throughout Monday, as things develop with my wunnerful big bruther. Keep those purrs comin', but things look bettur and bettur efurry day.

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Oh, oh, oh, breakin' newsies! Brainball's got a bee-yootiful Lady Cat! Brainball and the lovely Patches of the Big Piney Woods Cats are now a couple. I'm so happy fur my big bruther and his Patches Lady!




















Isn't that romantick, my sweetiepie Ariel? *Brainball and MaoMao smiling big mancat smiles at their girlfriends*