The Kitten Cuteness Continues

Here is a picture of Kitty and Isaac watching TV today. Kitty was wearing headphones because I was just about to vacuum. Speaking of that, it was through the work of me,my sister-in-law Karen, my brother-in-law Ed, and my sweetie that I was able to vacuum. I was vacuuming the baseboards on Sunday when I spied a large, blue lego brick. The thought that I needed to bend down and pick it up was barely sent when the hose sucked that baby up. I could hear it rattling around and then everything seized up and the vacuum made this horrible shrieking wail. I turned it off. After a glance, I realized I needed to disassemble the vacuum to get the brick. That's where Karen and Ed found me 1/2 an hour later... down on the floor with the base plate taken off, trying to decipher how one got in to the motor case to have a look. Frankly, I had run out of energy. Ed took over and he and Karen had ideas and theories on what to do... one of which was shaking the vacuum violently. Had the lego been not so severly lodged, I think that would have done it. The next day, I took the vacuum apart on my worktable in the studio. I was able to get the vacuum apart enough to see the lego lodged in the intake fan. I tried all means of moving it out of there... but ultimately gave up. The next morning Thom handed me the now flatened, melted, mutilated lego brick. He said with a sly grin, "You just have to know how to move it to get it free." Wow. The vacuum works better than ever... perhaps it liked all of the attention.
Below is the best action shot of a 4 year old blowing out birthday candles you will likely ever see:

Isaac loves Kitty so much. I do not understand how a cat can put up with the amount of carrying and holding that  Kitty does of Isaac... but he does, he does. He rarely raises his voice with her and has only once accidentially scratched her. Isaac has become friends with Solomon and just tonight they were in cahoots and grabbing leftovers off of plates. Actually, Isaac was doing the grabbing and Solomon was looking on with an expression of, "How can something so wrong FEEL so right?"
Twice now when I have been cooking Isaac has jumped up on the stove to get my attention. You would think he would have learned the first time when he singed a few hairs, but apparently he has not.
He makes me laugh whenever I catch sight of him somewhere... he's so little and I don't expect him to be wherever it is he is. Today my laughing moment was finding him passed out cold on one of our kitchen chairs. So cute. Below are the two friends, posing for the camera: