The journey to West Seattle...

So how did the kitties finally end up in our home? Well, on July 23rd I picked up the kitties from the original owner's place WAY up in Snoquomish. They were then taken to my coworker Greg's place in Capitol Hill for them to be watched while we continued to work on the house. There, they met up with Crisco, my friend's 12-year old black cat. He's a beauty (sorry - no picture). According to Greg, the three of them got along real well. For the first few days, Luna would hiss at Crisco whenever he came close. This would make Crisco real sad - but, eventually, they all became buds.

On July 31st, Greg got his own new kitty - Nutter. She never really got along with our playful kitties even though she's only three days older than them. Our kitties were born May 15th - Nutter was born on May 12th. Maddie tried her best to play with Nutter but she was way too quiet for our energetic ones. Greg definitely had his hands full with all four cats... I'm so glad that he was able to watch over our kittens 'cause we needed all that time to finally finish the living room. I can't believe how long it took us! It was originally supposed to be a surprise birthday gift for The Great One but it took so long that I ended up telling her for the sake of figuring out how to handle them and to possibly take on another kitty. I told her about it on Sunday July 31st - a whole five days before we actually got them. Though it was no longer a surprise, she was still very happy with her gift!

So, FINALLY, on Friday August 5th, The Great One & I went to Greg's place to pick them up. We've been having so much fun with them ever since. We appointed new names to them replacing Sweet Pea with Luna Bella - based on a song called Bella Luna (we just switched the names around). She goes simply by Luna. And we replaced Amelia's name with Madeline Rose - Madeline seems fitting for her & Rose is for the pretty color of her nose. She goes simply by Maddie. Together, they're Luna & Maddie... aka Looney and Maddy! They're such crazy ones in the late evening. After 11pm seems to be the time they decide to go WILD, chasing each other all over the house and swiping/clawing everything in sight. We usually go to bed around midnight so we can still hear 'em. But they're great!

So they're litter box is an automatic one (Litter Maid). They've acclimated well to it without ANY problems. We've started them on hard kitty food - but also feed them canned food. Nothing like "Kittens for Dummies" to help us out in this new experience. We're keeping them only in the living room and kitchen for now and will open them up to other rooms in the next few weeks. I'm loving them!