A silly doof cat with adorably crossed eyes sits on the duvet waiting for me to get in bed so we can cuddle. He looks up at me with imploring eyes and purrs 🥰

no repeats tonight hilolo!!
#ChurroBei

My fluffy black cat is curled up tight on my thighs, his little face resting adorably against my knee as he sleeps. He looks like he’s expending effort because he’s also silently monitoring Hilo...

Restraining himself from harassing his sick brother, a giant grey Siamese cuddles with a big IKEA stuffed dog on the couch.

One working hard at recovering from a bladder infection and the other working hard not to be a dickface (it's hard to tell because he's super adorable, but he's plotting to sit on his sick brother as soon as I stop paying attention #TabloBei #ChurroBei

I think all 5-cat families fit this exact pattern 🤣
I've got #PixelBei and #ChurroBei resident fake gangsters (both Siameses)
#TabloBei former stray, fast-bap king, dog stressor, regulator
#TeslaBei just livin life on autopilot
#AoifeBei who wouldn't piss on her siblings if they were on fire

Satisfied with my attention, Hilo's stopped bothering the other cats. My arm rests across his upper back and he's settled into a comfortable position. Hilo also feels like he's closest to me, and therefore won the Mama Attention Game. Everyone else was happy with their original positions, and they aren't going to bother to correct him.

The final positions: Tablo is a fluffy black loaf on the left, laying slightly elevated on the bolster pillow beneath the covers, his hind end near Hilo. Hilo is cuddled against my ribs, fully relaxed under my forearm, his subtly striped grey left paw fully-extended with a relaxed paw, his right paw in a relaxed curl against the submerged pillow. To the far right of the photo, Pig and Tess haven't moved since Hilo came to sit by me. They remain in a cream and cocoa and black pile of fluff.

Now I can’t get out of bed, y'all, this is just too sweet. #TabloBei #ChurroBei #PixelBei #TeslaBei

Post a picture when your pet was little.

I got Tablo as an adult, but the other 4... #AoifeBei #PixelBei #ChurroBei #TeslaBei

Hilo and Tesla are cuddled to my left side, both clinging like barnacles to the edge of the bed. Tess is her super round fluffy void self, and Hilo looks confused (as usual), slightly further away.

Pig is under my knees in the tent I made for him under the covers so he stays warm and cozy

The reproach on the face of this fluffy black cat as he sits on the bed next to me 🤣 I told him he’s a beautiful baby and he said "yeah but Pig is still in my spot"

The empty spot on the bed where Tesla and Hilo just were

These 4 kitties are clinging close to me this evening, and it's not even cold, but moments later, everyone's gone 🤣 #TeslaBei #ChurroBei #PixelBei #TabloBei

Closeup of Derpmaster Flash, grey nose and crossed blue eyes

A baby pic of Hilo not long after I got him. He was leggy and long so I called him "Churro". You can see his Siamese markings here, the grey concentrated around his face, and ears and feet, but everything else is a creamy color.

Seeeeee?? His nose and eyorz have always been grey, it just never occurred to me My #ChurroBei toasted a LOT over time.

Holding a mostly-grey "blue" Siamese on a very soft teal blue fleece blanket, petting his eyebols with my thumb while I try to keep him from shaking his head again and flinging drool all over me

Hilo cleans his own drool off his side, his head blurry in motion, his tongue a tall pink arc from his nozzle to his shoulder

Hilo cleaning the top of his little paw, blissed out and eyes closed

A closeup of his face, crossed icy blue eyes reflecting the teal of the blanket as he stares into the distance trying to detect even the residue of a brain cell inside his head. He’s visually impaired so he doesn't do a whole lot of directed looking, just looks in the general direction of the sound. He’s aggressively not bright on top of that, and intensely jealous of his siblings. His sister was sitting here a moment ago.

This one drools while cuddling, and when he makes biscuits, he’s absolutely swampy #ChurroBei

Hilo's slightly cross-eyed noble little meatball Siamese's face surrounded by an avatar-wreath that says “I love my mom”. You can se he’s also wearing a toddler’s t-shirt in a color that brings out his icy blue eyes. It says “my Mom is the awesomest”, I think, you can’t really see all of the lettering

dodo baby timeline speed bump - TBT to when I got him to wear a t-shirt #ChurroBei

A big ol grey cat sits at the foot of the bed looking up in the direction of the moving ceiling fan. His vision isn’t the best, so he's wary of big moving things, but I didn't expect him to worry about the ceiling fan that's been there all his life

Dodo baby timeline speed bump: Hilo attempts to understand the ceiling fan 🤣 it's been a while since it's been on, but it was 80° today and a girls gotta sleep. #ChurroBei

At my left side, between the pillow and the covers, my giant grey Siamese's head is out of view, beneath the keyboard of my laptop.

A closeup of Hilo's face with his big round disney-pet eyes. Such a pretty profile for this chonker.

Hilo's now snuggled against my side, hanging out under my elbow like a football for a running back. He’s falling asleep as he watches me play a video game.

Dodo baby timeline speedbump. He stuffed his head under the laptop and started purring, not my choice of positions, but OK 😂 Then he popped his head out to look around, still purring. #ChurroBei

To my left is a loafed elfin-faced fluffy black cat (Tess)

Along the front of my legs as I lay on my side under a floral duvet are both the Siamese in croissant mode, Pig closer to my feet (god he’s so skinny) and Hilo up against my stomach, but all I could fit in the picture is his big giant head

Tablo is loafed behind my knees, peering over my side at the other cats. He’s waiting for someone to vacate his favorite spot, by my head, to come be molecularly bonded to my face.

4/5 of the cat colony are huddled around me - how come I’m so popular tonight? 🤣 #TeamMeeze and the #BlackCatMafia both fully represented #TeslaBei #PixelBei #ChurroBei #TabloBei

Old man Pig (Siamese) stands unsteadily on a handmade quilt on the bed in the foreground. He’s between yells about the disturbance, very visibly UNhappy with his sister Aoife scampering around (chasing the automatic laser toy on the floor beside the bed), so he got up from his napping place to REGULATE. I can't ignore him when he's yelling, because his health has been fragile, especially since I was out of town last week and his care was VERY spotty. His hastily-abandoned cuddle buddy Tesla (fluffy black cat) dazedly sits upright, but 90% asleep behind him, and Hilo (giant grey Siamese), with his perpetual derp face, lays in Pig's second favorite spot on the bed pillows in the background.

"誰跑來跑去?!?!" - 累累的老哥貓
#PixelBei #TeslaBei #ChurroBei

My grey Siamese Hilo is laying under the covers with me while I play Civ VI, his head and shoulders are leaning against my stomach and his paws are curled over the edge of the blanket as he watches the little Civ people walk around the screen

Hilo, in the same position, looks at me with his cross-eyed little face

Hilo is leaned way back, paws curled up, his chest and fuzzy neck all long

A closeup of Hilo's face as he leans way back, his eyes half closed as he purrs his blissful sleepy purrs

Dodo baby cuddles #ChurroBei

1 The itch begins - Hilo is laying on his side on a bright green fluffy duvet cover, eyes slightly crossed, mouth slightly open, one ear back, the itchy ear flat, as he raises his back paw to scratch

2 Hilo in scratch mode, calmly and carefully inserting his clawed back peet into his itchy ear to scratch

3 Essentially kicking himself in the face, Hilo is going hard on the itch

4 Hilo digs in gently with one claw to target the itch. His face is puckered with concentration, eyes crossed and the un-itchy ear alert

Doofus break, Hilo scratching a persistent ear itch #ChurroBei

A giant grey "blue" Siamese sits atop a blanket with a confused look on his face, eyes slightly crossed and one ear back

This dipshit (jk he's a sweet mama's baby, he's just a dick to his siblings), Hilo, LAYS on whichever cat is in my lap. He’s 21lbs at last weigh-in. Whichever other cat is with me runs away if they see him coming #ohlawdhecomin #ChurroBei

My fluffy black cat Tablo and my elderly Siamese Pig are laying incredibly close to each other on the quilt and duvet over my legs on the bed (it's the warmth from the heated mattress cover, but they think it's ME 🤣)

My chonky floof Hilo, a grey Siamese/mountain lion hybrid deal, is laying incredibly close to the edge of the bed, rolled half over onto his back to my left, letting me pet his massive tumtum while he soaks up the warmth.

I think my boys are hoping that the planes can’t land I. Ohio tomorrow and thus mama will be here tomorrow night to warm their little fuzzy bottoms. #TabloBei #PixelBei #ChurroBei

In the distance (at the end of the ottoman) a predator (a grey kitty girl named Aoife) observed her nemesis (my other grey kitty Hilo) as he sits in her rightful place in my colorful living room. She’s considering how she wants to approach the situation. He’s very aware he’s being watched.

Closeup of the grey kitty girl in the same place. She's unintentionally falling asleep as she plots his demise.

View of his ears from the top of Hilo's head as he waits for her to do something she’s not going to do. He can’t see really well, so he’s extra jumpy. He can’t tell that she’s falling asleep, so his ears are held at the "I might need to run fast real soon" position. She intimidates him just by facing his direction, eyes closed or open 🤣

Détente #AoifeBei #ChurroBei

A cautious grey kitty has one foot on the desk he’s attempting to cross over to, the rest of him on another desk. He looks at the other cat warily

A firmly-planted fluffy black cat is loafed on the laptop and tablet on the big desk, ignoring the grey cat. No feet are visible.

Doofus attempting to come to the desk while his arch nemesis is firmly planted. #ChurroBei #TabloBei

A grey kitty with his eyes closed, a deeply satisfied expression on his face as he lays with his front paws on my lap, my thumb moving up the side of his head and beginning to press the ear against his head and start over again, petting his ear down over and over in circles

The same grey kitty with his crossed, bright blue eyes open, the color of the teal polka-dotted bathrobe makes his eyes look more green than blue. One ear has a notch in it from when he picked a fight with his big sister, and both ears have soft little paintbrushy feather-tips

Closeup of the face of the grey kitty with his eyes barely open, purring in comfort and affection, still visibly cross-eyed, one of his most adorable traits.

Ear circles time for the dodo baby #ChurroBei If he wasn't so goofy-looking, I would be a lot less tolerant of his teenage-esque brotherly pursuit of wrestling with every other cat. They can get away from him pretty easily if they manage to slip into his blind spot, so there's minimal carnage 🤣

Pixel the Siamese and Tesla the night floof are curled up together tight, fast asleep, while Hilo is settled a respectful distance from them. He’s at the very edge of the allowable limit but he hasn't gotten too close the whole time so Pig and Tess fell back asleep. Hilo is still a little tense, aware that he’s there by their graces

Poor baby Hilo 🥺 he so wants to cuddle with them, but they remember he ambushed them from a 7' bookshelf a couple times. He’s also anxiously aggro (his vision has deteriorated the past few years); he swats them when they surprise him. So they swat him on sight #PixelBei #TeslaBei #ChurroBei

Two cats in the darkness walking all over me and my pillow to harass me into getting up to feed them.

Tesla sits on the rug on the floor, her back to me, looking in the direction she expects me to go.

Hey guise I heard there's feeding? #ChurroBei #PixelBei #TeslaBei

My FB post from Aug 4, 2017, with a picture of Hilo as a young cat (giant kitten?), pre-crossed-eyes, laying on my sister's side table with one leg hanging off and a dog crate in the background. He was cream and grey back then, looking a lot more like a blue Siamese than he does now. The text says, "Internet, meet Churro! I'm fostering him until I can find him a family" 🤣😂

This little boy was a foster fail, and it's my fault for letting him sleep in my room the first night I was fostering him. He hopped on the bed, dug under the covers, then draped himself over my hip and purred us to sleep under the blankets. How could I possibly give that baby up?!? #ChurroBei

My silly Hilo snuggled up next to me, his head popped out from under the covers and settled in the crook of my arm, paw stretched out across my stomach on my left side, as we watch TV in bed.

Snuggle time with the greybie. He did his sandworm routine, pawing at the blankets till I lift them and let him in, then rooting around under the covers looking for...idk what he’s always looking for, but he then ends up popping his head out and snuggling close to me. #ChurroBei

Hilo, a giant blue Siamese cat, is standing in front of the laptop pretending he’s not there so I don’t make him move out of the way.

Hilo asking me permission to lay down there with an adorable cross-eyed, cautious glance in my direction.

Both cats have left the room, Hilo having accomplished his goal of annoying Tablo for no reason. Oh, wait, I take it back... 😂 #ChurroBei
I love this clumsy dingleberry so much. Cat social dynamics are fascinating when you basically have a colony of 5.

Photo of two cats sitting on different desks in a home office. Tablo, a black fluffy cat, is looking at me with an expression of long-suffering exhaustion. Hilo's crosseyed expression as he sits on the other desk is vacant. He’s pretending he's not intimidating Tablo, with his mere chaotic presence, into hopping off the main desk. He's not as clueless as he looks, this is intentional.

Tablo: I can’t believe you let him live here.
Hilo: 🫧🫧🫧

I hear the ocean when i
I put my ear to Hilo's head 🐚. He’s also optically challenged, and doesn't know it, so he barrels his 22lb graceless self around the house breaking stuff like a mini blindfolded elephant

#TabloBei #ChurroBei

Photo of a calendar page dated March 10, 2025. An additional note next to that date says "Hilo's Birthday (2007)". On the top line of the day's hourly schedule is an adorable cartoon icon representing my kitty Hilo. The icon is doing that half cuddle-roll thing with his head smooshed happily against the ground, paws folded up against his body, while his back end is upright playfully, his tail with a jaunty curl.

Closeup photo of Hilo, a solid 22 lb blue point Siamese, sleeping like a bag of potatoes under my arm as we sit on the sofa. Behind him is a pillow with blue and green birds, and he's laying with his head against my side, my arm hiding his eyes. It's too bright in the room, but he wants to sleep next to me, so he pulls my arm over his face. This is his favorite place to sleep, on my left side under my arm like a little football 🥹

A closeup photo of Hilo in football position under my left arm. I'm wearing a pink sweatshirt that says "cat person". His head and a paw are on my arm, one paw is in my hand, and he’s looking up at me with wistful, cross-eyed adoration.

A closeup shot of baby Hilo at about two months of age. We're sitting on the big couch with peach and grey handmade quilts in piles. He’s strewn himself across the blanket, eyes closed, dead asleep. He almost looks like he’s flying, with his body a little twisty, his front paws reaching forward, and his little back peets curled towards and touching each other (so damn cute). His skinny little tail is flourished behind him with relaxed abandon, and he has a happy little smile on his face as he sleeps. In the upper left is a dog toy, and in the lower right, my old laptop.

I've been making a PDF calendar for myself every year in Keynote, add a million hyperlinks and monthly photos. Not too themed so it's flexible.
I need the custom to-do lists, but I LOVE the personalization ❤️ #ChurroBei

No thoughts only vibes #churrobei

Cross-eyed Siamese cat with a goofy expression on his face is being cuddled against a fleece bathrobe. A woman's arm with a jade bracelet is in the foreground.

He is exactly as smart as he looks hahahaha #churrobei