T stands for Trouble

• The kitchen door and baricade must be closed at all times.


• The cats are now allowed to eat on the dining table so they can eat without their food being taken by Tesla as they try to eat, and thrown across the floor. She loves getting both their bowls, emptying out the wet food contents on the carpet, and clinking the bowls together.


• Tesla knows that the laptop power cord is important and delights in pulling it out over and over and over.


• Either way, I must use the laptop out of her reach as she has already broken 2 keys.


• Cell phones must be kept out of her reach; she actually called my brother early one morning (although it is touching that she got my brother of all the people in my contact list). Ian can testify that this really happened.


• We have not found a remote to a TV that only turns on with a remote in almost a month now.


• I have no idea how, but I found my eye shadow in the hallway the other day.


• She now distributes our pillows (as in the kind that are as big as she is) all over the house.


• She knows the garbage/recycle cans contain interesting stuff that if pulled out, immediately get our attention, such as: used diapers, food scraps, and beer bottles (which she tries to drink from). Now we have to put a book on top of the cans.


• If we give her cut up avocado bits that are a bit too soft, she will relish smearing it on the table, her chair, her face, and her hair, even the back-of-her-head hair.


• She can sign "milk" but mostly chooses to pull at my shirt, reaching down for the boob, even in public.


• But she loves goat and cow milk too, and will gladly throw to the side (literally) whatever important thing she is trying to hide, such as keys, to have a little.


• You might find spit-up (small blobs of whatever was in her tummy regurgitated up) randomly on a chair, and you don't notice until you are about to sit down


• Sometimes it's so hard to put a diaper on her that I just let her walk around naked for a bit.


• Best of all, when I say, "where's daddy?" Tesla will wander off and indeed look for daddy. It's a nice trick when I need a break. : )

p.s. Her shirt aptly says, "Wild One." It's perfect. Thanks, Mena!!