Today’s cuteness ration

Leo is very cute, obviously, and a very good companion and entertainer. I frequently share photos of him on my Instagram (which is public) or on my personal Facebook (which isn’t public), however, I don’t always share them here, too. That means that not everyone gets to see Leo’s cuteness. This post is a bit of a catch up—and includes blog exclusives!

The photo up top is one I shared a couple days ago, and it depicts what I found when I was ready to crawl into bed. I said in its caption:

Last night, Leo climbed onto my pillows while I brushed my teeth & got ready for bed. He usually lies on Nigel’s pillows, but I’m lazy about re-fluffing them, so last night he climbed onto my unsquished pillows instead. A moment after I snapped the photo of us, he crawled to the other pillows and I was allowed to go to bed. In the photo of just him, he has a “What?!” look on his face, but he was probably waiting for me to tell him to move. Every morning I wake up and find Leo snuggled up against me, not on any pillows. He’s a good boy.

This actually isn’t even a remotely new thing for him. The first time I shared a photo of him on pillows was in June of 2019, and there was the time in this house, back in September 2020, when he decided to sleep right next to my head. He’s also not the only furbaby to do something like this.

Back in January 2018, I woke up with Bella asleep on my pillow, on top of my head. Even Jake got in on the act back in 2012.

Sunny probably did it, too, but I didn’t share any photos of her doing it.

Here are two more related photos: The one at left is Leo laying on top of my pillows, before I took our selfie. The photo at right is one of Leo on “his” (actually Nigel’s…) pillows, taken last night:

Next up, Leo unintentionally making me laugh:

I said in my caption for that photo:

Yes, I’m (very) easily amused, but I always laugh when I see Leo carrying his toy like this, as if he’s a cartoon with a big blue smile. That stuffed toy, btw, is—was?—a blue dog, which he knows as “B-Dog”, and whenever I ask him where B-Dog is, he runs to get it (all his toys have names he knows). At first, I thought it was a little creepy, him having a toy dog to chew up and destroy, but, then, when I was a little kid I had the original “GI Joe” toy human. On the other hand, I didn’t chew it up, so…

I actually had other toy humans, including two dolls—sorry, “action figures”—from Marx Toys, the first was Johnny West and also Chief Cherokee (a toy I’m sure couldn’t be sold these days).

And finally, at the bottom of this post is a photo of Leo and me that I took yesterday afternoon, but didn’t share anywhere (I’d already shared several on social media over two days, so I decided not to). That concludes today’s cuteness ration.