Christmas with Gershwin

My former cat - now my parents' cat - is a giant, 18 lb. Maine Coon named Gershwin. He never fails to provide plenty of entertainment, especially when there is a lot of paper and boxes involved. He LOVES to lay on any of these, like the trash bag of wrapping paper below:


Barely fitting in a Banana Republic box (at least he has good taste):


These pictures occurred all in about 1 minute as we sat around opening presents. By the end of Gerswhin's little show we were all crying with laughter.

Proudly sitting on a big box and staring lovingly at Brad (who is deathly allergic):


Something going terribly wrong:


The result of his 18 lbs.: