Last week was great -- two of our favorite aunties from Minnesota, Amalie and Elizabeth, came down to visit us. It's great that they love cats so much that they wanted to come down here just to see us (or really just me, if we're being honest). With all the focus being on the new kitty for the last two months, it's great to be the center of attention once again. Everyone was pampering me all weekend -- lots of full body massages, tuna for every meal, and cake! Yes -- cake! This is a picture of Auntie Amalie telling the new kitty to make me a cake. And can you believe it? She did what she was told! Good cake too! She's going to be quite a baker some day.
Here's a picture of Auntie Amalie enjoying some cake with me. She's pointing at me and saying, "I love this kitty! I might just steal her away and take her back to Minnesota with me!" If this is the kind of attention I'm going to get, I may just sneak into her bag and go along with her.
Unfortunately, my Auntie Elizabeth seemed much more interested in the new kitty than in me. Here's Auntie Elizabeth reading to the new kitty. At least it was a book on how to pamper cats, so hopefully the new kitty will learn something useful.
The new kitty has learned some new tricks, although I don't think they are very impressive. Our Imma and Abba seem to get very excited when she picks up her head or burps on command. She's also started making some interesting vowel sounds and smiling a lot. Personally, I found it more exciting when I told her to projectile poop on our Abba (a second time) and she did! Now that is a useful trick!
The new kitty is also learning how to get down and get funky. Here she is dancing to the funkified sounds of McLovin'.
Anyway, it was a great visit with our Aunties and we can't wait for them to come back! Here's me with my bags packed as I contemplate hitching a ride back north with them. This was before Caldecott told me that the temp was -10.... Well, it will be great to have them back here again soon!
Caldecott (aka "Slim Gray") is a children's librarian and Simone (aka "Stealth Black") is an engineering student by day and a bartender by night. We're two crazy cats who like to kick back with a bowl of popcorn, a wedge of blue cheese, and some good books.
