Scottie turns 19 today.  The boys suggested that we buy a cake and enjoy it on his behalf.  Dora and Gloria also made a nice picture card of Scottie and mailed over a card for him too. 

    Scottie is an old and lazy cat these days.  He sleeps a lot and he goes between the couch in the family room and his bed in the garage.  During the day, he still goes outdoors to hang out but for shorter period of times now.  He will hang out with us in the backyard if we are out there.  If we try to bring him up to the bonus room while we are there, he will migrate downstairs to return to the couch.  Nowadays, we try to give Scottie as much wet food as he wants to prevent him from losing more weight.  His taste has changed and he is very picky now.  He used to love tuna, now he does not care too much for it.  He likes canned salmon, chicken and the Vietnamese pork roll.  He loves the fish/meat only if it is right out of the fridge, so I only give him a little bit of a time.  He knows when we go to the kitchen and follows us there; he will wait until he gets his treats.  He will stand in the middle in the kitchen and totally be in the way. 

    The boys do not pay too much attention to Scottie except when they are all sitting down watching TV.  Both of them love to have Scottie sit on them.  They will ask us to put the blanket on their legs and place Scottie on them.  The boys will remain very still so Scottie will not leave.  This morning I said Happy Birthday to Scottie, then Connor reminded me that Scottie can’t hear.  Instead Stuart pantomimed a song of Happy Birthday to Scottie.