When I’m on the computer I like to sit in the corner of the couch right against the arm and then put my feet up on the coffee table. I have my routines and I like to follow them. Cindy-Lu sees me with my most favorite thing in the world (my laptop) and immediately gets jealous. She climbs up on the couch and stands next to me. She puts one of her feet on my lap just in front of the laptop and then starts making this low growling sound until I move my arms and permit her to climb over me. She then squeezes her little butt down in between me and the seat and looks up at me and says "Hi, mommy!"

Today it was so hot and I just sat down in my favorite corner near the air conditioner when she came climbing up the couch. She put her foot on my leg and started growling and I told her no, I didn’t want her climbing on me, I was to hot. She looked me right in the eye and said "Cindy-Lu say hi mommy."

Why she can’t say hi to me from the other side of the couch without crowding my space I’ll never know. But, I do know that when she outgrows this stage where she wants to sit next to me (and sometimes on me) I’m going to wish she was growling at me again, trying to get to her spot next to me on the couch.

This picture is from August of 2006, but I couldn’t resist posting it. It just shows how sweet she can sometimes be.