Step away from the cat food!

Emma has taken a liking to eating the cat's food, and splashing around in the cat's water bowl.  Given that she likes to get into everything nowadays....we need to keep her in the same room as us at all times.  So, in order for us to be able to cook a meal, we needed a distraction from the cat's chow while Emma is in the kitchen with us.  She first took a liking to the glass bowls (now placed elsewhere), then it was the bottles of vitamins (our little health nut is going to have to search a little harder for those now), then it was the drawer full of plastic storage containers (thought that might work...but man did that make a big mess/obstacle course in the kitchen).  Finally today, I gave her the set of measuring cups, and this kept her attention span long enough for me to boil some water and make some macaroni and cheese.  Who would have guessed that trying to figure out how to stack the measuring cups back together would be such a brain teaser!