Never ever get just one of anything with 2 kids!

Uggh! Why do I always have to learn things the hard way. We got a new kitten over Thanksgiving. That poor little thing. Not only is it constantly mugged by one or the other of the kids (which I suppose is good, because she's being trained from the get go on taking it with a grain of salt), but when one is holding her the other wants her. And it's not like she even wanted to be held by the first one, but is instead being pinned down against all her little will.

Eva thinks that every time she meows it's a good thing. She'll pick her up by the throat (we correct her and say by the body), then she meows at her, and if the kitten doesn't meow back it becomes Eva's personal mission to make her do so. She starts shaking her and pinching her and anything else until she hears that longed for sound. Then she grins and hugs the kitty close and puts her head next to hers. Then it starts all over again. lol

Julian loves that thing more than anything in the world. He talks about her when he goes to school, can't wait to get home to play with her, wants to hold her while he's doing everything from eating, to sleeping, to using the bathroom! And he's so gentle with her. Watching him with the cats eons ago (like maybe a year and a half?) you certainly never would have thought it.

And, lastly, Jay and I are starting to really dislike the new kitten because it's developed the odius habit of choosing places other than the litter box for it's business. The cats are permenetly locked out of my office and they have been spending a lot of time locked in the room with the litter box. The big ones will teach her, and she has no other place to go. I hope she gets it, because MAN would it be bad if I had to take Julian's Sarabi away. Yikes!