Reading the Sunday Paper with my dad, what's in the news?
That's my kind of reporting!
A box, some string, what more could I want out of life?
Kitten in a basket there is nothing cuter.
I'm innocent I tell ya!
"Thbbbt!"
We got laser eyes
Are your heads exploding yet?
The kittens grow so fast. Its hard to believe that only a few weeks ago they pretty much fit in one hand and now Caesar is huge, its becoming difficult to pick him up with just one hand.
Caesar weighs 1.6 kilos and Lyra weighs 1.15 kilos.
They also move around so much and so quickly its getting harder and harder to get decent photographs of them where they aren't sleeping.
Caesar is definitely on the skittish side. When the toast popped the other morning and he was in the kitchen he nearly tore the lino off the floor trying to make a run for it. Any loud noises always make him jump and sometimes he tries to hide, but we try to get him out of hiding right away and show him there is no danger. I don't want him to be a hidey cat everytime there is an unexplained noise.
Lyra doesn't very bothered by most loud noises, although when someone was drilling upstairs she did get spooked and got off my lap to go to the safety of her tree. The funny thing was that even though Caesar was alert to the noise he didn't try and hide that time.
They spend a lot more time chasing eachother now and they do this funny CopyCat thing where if one of them gets up to go get some food or water the other one, even if in the deadest of sleeps, perks up and has to follow. So that is another one of their nicknames the CopyCats.
I'm going to be home some more so I am going to try and make their first vet appointment since we got them. They were checked by a vet before we got them. Its probably getting close to the time to discuss spaying and neutering as well.
They will try out their new harnesses this weekend. Just to wear around the house to get them use to them. If I can successfully train them to walk on the harness then perhaps vet visits will not be so traumatic. Although I will still need to get a pet carrier as we do not have a car so whereever they go it will be on public transport.
Lyra got accepted into Cats In Boxes: Little kitty in a big box
I bought some salmon temptations, they only have the small cat head shaped packets at our store, but the kittens seem to like them so I am hoping they will be a good training tool. I read on one website that some people experienced the same problem with the catberry treatums. Their cats were turned off by the smell initially but then they tried them again later when the smell had died down a bit and the cats actually liked them. I've stuck them in a drawer for now, we'll drag them out again in the future and see if there is any result.
We made some Awards, Lyra and Caesar wanted to express their gratitude to all the grown-up kitties who stop by the blog and give us advice and praise. We're going to try and do this quite regularly.
The first award is to Abby, a lovely Tuxie kitty who is grown up but tiny like us. We promised Abby a special picture of us so she and her momma could pretend they had some kittens of their own.
We adopt Abby as our first Big Cat Sister to help us grow up right.
Our next award is to Mickey, a lovely all black kittty who always has some good advice for us. We made this award so Mickey and his momma could oooh and ahhh over us all the time :)
We adopt Mickey as our first Big Cat Brother to help us grow up right.
Here are our photos for today....
These be my shoes now human!
Hello, I'm cute
Our cute sleeping makes momma's head explode
A little cuddle with dad
Looky at what I got in the mail momma!
Hello people and kitties in internet land
Lyra watching the birdies
The birdies, those weird parakeet mutations that have taken over the uk. They've forced out the magpies and the wood pigeons from their favourit tree.
I'm given Caesar a bath while he sleeps.
Sometimes we fall asleep on momma in very strange positions and then she can't move.
Someone asked about our scratching posts, this is the big one its part of the tree that momma got before she even got us.
This is the one dad got us. It has a nice comfy seat so we can curl up together next to momma and watch tv.
Gee that burger sure smells good dad.
Maybe if I am realy quite they will give me some burger unlike Lyra who cries and tries to snatch it off them.
Dad didn't give me none of his burger so I climbed in momma's sweatshirt for a cuddle.
Then I forgave dad and we had a cuddle too.
Hey I wasn't gonna chew that wire, honest!
Oops!
Hey momma you been back here all this time? hehehehe
I'm sorry momma, can I come off punishment now? Look how cute I am.
Curled up in our big tree for a little nap.
Caesar had a little accident yesterday but he's fine. I had been in the bedroom (we're still trying to kitten proof it but its hard because we don't have much storage) for most of the day, I don't think he realised I was in the living room and I heard him squeeking in the hallway outside the bedroom door as he does when we're in there and he's not allowed in.
I got up from the couch to show him I was in the living room and then I heard a bit of crash and ran to the hallway to find that the ironing board had fallen over and Caesar was trapped under a towel that had been draped over it. At first I was really worried as I once had a peice of MDF (chipboard) furniture fall on a cat and give it minor internal injuries. I don't think the ironing board actually fell directly on him. He of course had darted off after wriggling out from under the towel and was hiding just behind the sofa with his back to me.
I didn't have any regular treats so I had to coax him out with a bit of cheese. I looked him over and he seemed fine, no broken bones or blood anywhere. Later on he cuddled really close to me right under my chin (which he never does) so I guess he was a bit frightented but he seems otherwise alright. It really gave me a fright though.
Their nails are really sharp and I am going to have to start cutting them. Caesar is generally good in not using his claws on us but Lyra just scratches if she wants food or toys or is trying to climb up us. Sometimes when they are chasing eachother they end up running over me and I've got tons of tiny claw scratches all over my arms. I did see those soft claw things that you can put over a cats claws but I'm not sure that I feel its right to do that to them although I guess its far better then declawing them.
We got our PetPlanet delivery today. Two massive bags of CatSan litter which I hope will last at least a month. I have a bad back so I can't really carry cat litter up and down the hill from the grocery store anymore, by ordering it we could get tons and also save some money I think.
I ordered their harnesses as well but I won't break those out for another couple of weeks till their b-day. I also got some organic treats called Catberry treats but they litterally wrinkled their noses up at them. I assumed that the treats would have some sort of meat flavour but actually they are cranberry! What cat likes cranberry? what a waste of money. However, I did discover that our local waitrose has two kind of Temptations so we'll be getting those next time we go shopping.
The kittens will be 3 months old soon and we're thinking of doing a special contest for all the kitties on t'internet to celebrate.
Today's pictographs...
Are you insuating that it's NOT a good idea to sit on my sister's head?
Momma's legs make a nice hidey hole on the couch
You can't see me momma!
Cuddling my momma after my accident, poor little me
We like to play with dad
Give me that micey dad!
I said, give me that MICEY!
(she is a little demon when it comes to her toys and she not only crawled up Bryan's leg but stayed there even after he dropped the mouse. Luckily he is wearing his claw proof jeans)
I think the micey go in here
(Caesar likes to drop his mice in Bryan's sneakers and then hunt them out)
Oops! Caught in the act of wire chewing.
I'm innocent as always momma.
Would you kindly stop interrupting our telly time with that noisey red box?!
Our Nicknames:
Monkees
Hooligans
Vandals
Momma's little angels
PS thanks to everyone for suggesting blogrolling. I had installed it before I posted but when I previewed it I didn't think it was working. Seems to be working fine now :)
I've changed the blog layout for feb. and so have had to delete all my link boxes etc. I've put back a couple of the widgets, but its too labor intensive making all those links to everyone's blogs even though I really would like to link to all the kind kitties who link to us and whom we like to visit, so I'm on the hunt for a widget that can do it for me as I plan to change the blog design frequently. I get bored easily :)
I bought a new camera yesterday, its a Kodak V something digital. I just really needed something that took better pictures not only of the kittens but for my make-up artist portfolio. I can't afford to spend a lot so I used all my saved up Boots points. One of the best things about moving to the UK is Boots points. At least now I have a lot more options when taking photographs. Although they gave me the wrong instruction booklet in the box so I still haven't figured it all out.
It would also be good to find an easier way to import all my pics into the blog. I use Picassa to load them onto the computer and give them a little touchup. It works quite well without having to drag out photoshop. It does have a feature you can use with blogger to import photos, but it will only do 4 at a time and if you want more it create a new post for each set. I haven't figured out how to then compress them into one post, so basically I am just uploading one at time.
On with the pics...
Caesar cuddling with Bryan, or rather sleeping "as if dead"
Hello my adoring public (amazingly he stayed in Bryan's arms and didn't run away as he often does when he wakes up to find himself involved with a human)
Momma says I'm realy purrty.
hmmm that smells interesting (I found this very funny because she hates the smell of diet coke in the glass but when the glass was empty she couldn't get enough)
Brothers make good cushions.
Some kitten toes, who be who's?
Happy Tuxie and Toesie Tuesday.
