Chloe

She isn't often featured here, she doesn't have a larger-than-life personality, she doesn't do crazy things or break stuff just to watch what happens. She's just a normal, sweet cat who has a thing about sleeping on a stuffed bear.

We didn't buy that bear. We have a former sister-in-law who bought each of us a bear one year for Christmas, a pink one for me that didn't survive the flood, and the tan one you see in the picture. That summer when the boys were about four months old, they found the bears. They had a lot of fun dragging the brown bear around by the nose and throwing it up into the air in vain attempts to kill it. They would have nothing to do with the pink bear.

Even in a story about Chloe, the boys intrude.

Photo by Kent Johnson.