LostWoods Blog

I knew the day would come when the kittens quit staying in the bedroom so we could watch them all day on the kitten cam. What I didn’t anticipate is having technical issues at nearly the same time, thus putting an end to the viewing when they still were sometimes in the room. Over the weekend – besides the great tree climbing escapade – the kittens spent quite a bit of time in the cat room downstairs, as well as in the living room. Without cameras all over the house (no!) it’s just too hard to know where he best views would be at any given time, so no more kitten cam. Sigh… I’ll miss checking on them throughout the day.

The kittens can go up and down the stairs by themselves now. Allegra had issues with that — she’d get so excited about going downstairs that she’d be running and end up tumbling head over heels. Then she’d be so distressed she’d go back upstairs and refuse to come down again. But she’s over it, having learned to slow down and take it a step at a time. The boys had a few little tumbles, too, but they are all competent stairs climbers now. It’s a good thing. Basia isn’t so sure that she wants them down there. She likes to call them and then once she has their attention she escorts them back to our bedroom – one at a time, if necessary. She’s an opinionated little cat.

They do all come upstairs (herded by Buzzy) each night where they play on the bed, investigate the dad-cave, and sometimes sleep with us. Busy as they are – and boy are they! – they are still quite cuddly. This evening I was sitting on the couch watching tv and first Seely then Corliss climbed on my lap and fell asleep. They come running when they hear people’s voices and are happy to meet anyone and everyone.

Last week I planned to post some pictures of the kittens enjoying the present that Uncle Crenshaw and his Susanne-mom sent them. I got distracted and didn’t do that, so here they are. A week late, but still cute.

Notice Allegra is not in the bug? Just like posing on rocks, this is not what princesses do! LOL! And she is a Princess. She makes me laugh all the time. She acts so prim and proper one minute and the next she is sneaking up on her brothers and jumping on them. Last night the boys were all asleep and she was still bouncing (yes, I mean bouncing — just like a little kid jumping on the bed) around on the bed between, over, and on Ken and me.

Susanne also sent the kittens a couple of rabbit feet. Real, dehydrated rabbit feet. Everyone loves them. Charlie and Natane made off with them before the kittens could check them out. The next morning Allegra found one that Charlie brought upstairs. I was still lying in bed and I kept hearing growling. There didn’t seem to be any hissing or actual fighting going on, but I finally got up to see who was growling and why. There was Allegra with the rabbit’s foot, growling for all she was worth anytime her brothers even looked at her. It was HERS, all HERS! Later she must have put it down because I saw Corliss with it, growling just as ferociously as his sister had been.

Never a dull moment with kittens in the house. Sorry I can’t put a camera somewhere that I could just move around and follow the kittens through their day. Of course, my boss might frown on that — ’cause I sure wouldn’t get any work done!