Today is Halloween, and our resident toddler, Sly Cat, decided that he wanted to write a guest post for me. Take it away, Sly!

Happy Halloween, Everybody! It’s my favorite day of the year and I’m just VIBRATING with excitement!

In fact, you could say, I’m BESIDE myself! MOL! (Translation for those who don’t speak fluent Feline: Meow Out Loud!) Actually, I’m trying to show off the Skull & Crossbones collar that Mommy picked out for me ‘specially for Halloween, but I just can’t hold still! Either that, or Mommy’s just not a very good photographer. ROFMMTO! (Translation: Rolling On The Floor Meowing My Tail Off!)

Anyway, Mommy and I just want to thank our Phantasmagorical #GreatHallowTweet Bloggers for making this a Halloween Week To Remember! If you need some last minute ideas, there’s still time to haunt the #GreatHallowTweet sidebar (it’s the orange thing with the pumpkin on top, over there on the right. No, your other right!). There’s lots of stuff to see and do there, and lots of treats to make and eat – many of which take hardly any time at all!

I love everything that everybody posted for Halloween, and you will too. There’s even stuff for kitties! My personal favorite (I hope no one gets mad at Mommy or me – it’s a Cat thing) is the Chocolate Cherry Mice post from Helle’s New England Kitchen:

What do you mean, “Kitties don’t get any chocolate?” Rats! Speaking of which, there’s also this awesome Rat Loaf from Kudos Kitchen by Renée:

Mmmm… Raaat. But that’s just me. ‘Cause I’m a Cat.

Everybody was truly inspired for Halloween this year, and there’s all kinds of bugs and eyeballs and creepy stuff out there on the #GreatHallowTweet trail, so hop on! Have a Catulous and Safe Halloween, kidz!

That’s JJ. “It’s 9:00 A.M.! Shouldn’t the Trick or Treaters be here, already?!?“

Isn’t he a cutie?

We got Sly two weeks ago through the friend of a friend of a friend, when he was barely six weeks old. He’s brought new levels of cute into our home. Also? The literal definition of “ankle-biter”.

See? Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth in these shots. That’s because, much as I’d like to show him to you when he’s awake…

have you tried to photograph a kitten in action – much less a black kitten in action? Or even a black kitten when he’s holding still? When he’s awake, he’s a perpetual motion machine!

His favorite toy is his tail. You can’t see it here, but the tip of his tail – as well as the tips of his back toes – are the only bits of white on him. Like all kittens, he has an attention span measured in nanoseconds, so wherever he’s going, whatever he’s doing, if he happens to catch sight of his tail, he will stop to chase it.

He’s also a tireless explorer, getting into all sorts of nooks, crannies, and in and under everything. He’s tiny and dark, which makes it difficult to spot him, so lord only knows where he’s going and where he’s been. Yesterday morning, MJ made breakfast, and while we were eating, heard “thunking” sounds. It sounded like the fridge ice maker. Hearing it again, I got up to check. Nope, the ice maker’s fine. As long as I was there, I went to the fridge to get something, and opening the door, there was Sly, sitting on the second shelf from the top, blinking at me!

Since then, whenever MJ asks “Where’s Sly?” The response has to be: “I don’t know, but I’m reasonably sure he’s not in the fridge.” “I’m never going to live that down, am I?” Nope.