Kitten Disaster

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas but must admit I am glad it is over. It has been such a hassle this year what with the snow, rain, ice, mud and all the nasty weather. I got so upset everytime I tried to do some shopping because of all the other shoppers that were so rude everywhere I went. We did put up a tree although I was against the idea as I was afraid the now 7 month old kittens, Cassie and Twinki would spend all there time climbing it and knocking off the decorations. We put it on the new sunroom even though the sunroom isn't finished and it looked really nice in front of our floor to ceiling window. And a mircle, the kittens never climbed the tree although they did their darnest to pull off all the decorations in reach of the floor. But------- the canceled the idea of having any nicely wrapped packages under the tree. Twinki decided that all packages and gifts had to be unwrapped faster than the time it took me to wrap them. She would use her teeth by simply sliding her fangs across the package to tear the paper then start pulling at the small paper strips she had made. then she would start using her claw. I hadn't put any ribbons on anything as I expected them to pull ribbons off but not to unwrap the gift like that. She went from gifts to other things. Sometime ago we found that she though tinfoil was for tearing into tiny little silver flakes to scatter in the kitchen using her teath. But now she was going after plastic bags full of cookies. chip bags, cat food bags, dog food bags, a bag of sugar, and one of flour, and even a bag of cat litter. If it could be torn open using her teath or claws she was going to do it. Of course Cassi would sit watching until the bag would open and then help her scatter the contents. Thankfully most of the time I could hear the commotion and be able to remove the bag of what ever before there was to much of a mess. Presents were all put in the closet until Christmas morning, and all bags of food go in the refer or a cabinet now while the cat litter is in the garage.
I do have to admit I took lots of photos of them helping unwrap the gifts on Christmas morning and playing in the pile of left over paper and boxes.

Kittens Playing on a Ladder

Kitten in Towels

"But, Mom! Warm, clean towels make such a nice bed."

Birthday Presents

The kittens decided to check out my birthday presents.

Kitten Names

So far we haven't been coming up with names for these two new kittens that we can both agree on. After many trys and a lot of fails we 'think' we are settling on Cassi, short for Cassi-purr, for the gray kitten. And Twinki, short for Twinkle Toes, for the black kitten.
Both have personalities as different as the kittens are. Cassi, although about 2 weeks younger, is the more dominate kitten. She is the first to investage anything new. But Twinki is right behind her and at times can be kind of bossy until Cassi says enough is enough. But they seem to be good friend now, even if they arn't from the same litter. They will eat together, sort of. And they do sleep together.
One kitten is always fun to play with and watch play but two kittens are even more fun and will play with each other not demanding so much that you play with them. Any thing can be fun to play with. Boxes, baskets, a waded up piece of paper, a ribbon, (no strings please, they can start chewing on one end and it keeps going down.) Always supervise their play with things like ribbons, and paper so they don't choke on it.
They were quick to learn that people ment food and climbing legs gets them closer to the hands that give out the food. But they also leaned quickly that laps were ment for naps.