Free Friday, Family Friday...

I must say I'm really getting into this single life again! ;) I've had the most wonderful games of "Kitty Tag", "Bop" and "Herd of Thundering Elephants" with not just my half-brother Ramses, but the grumper Tigmut'hep! Yes, it's strange but true Tigmut'hep can play games and not constantly moan about how he's Da'Boss and us needing to show him respect... If he keeps this up I may well have to start liking him! ;)

Today is a big day though, it's the day where everyone in the USA celebrated my Nana's Birthday! :) Isn't it fantastic the way Americans have parties and set off fireworks just to celebrate my Nana's special day?! Sadly not many UK residents have taken up this tradition, although Mummy and all our family do and although they can't have a big party this weekend as a lot of them are busy they are having one next weekend! :) Of course we're offering our services in helping to eat up any left over meat, along with Nana's dog Misty... ;) I'm sure many of my Feline American friends will be offering the same sort of services for their own humans, if not please forward all left over steak this way please! ;)

Other than that I've had a few nice messages from my kittens to let me know that their humans are being very good to them and that they are very happy in their new homes! :) I do so love hearing from them and knowing that they are happy and healthy and getting all the love and fuss they require...

Family Friday and Farewell...

Today my lovely little lion boy Django leave here to go off with his new Mum and explore his own home for the first time! I think I am ready to let go of the kittens now as I'm starting to appreciate the peace of not having them constantly around me... Though I love them and and will miss them, it's time for me to have some "Isis time" and so I've been spending most of the last few days almost attached to Mummy! :) It's so peaceful in her office, though I can hear the kittens in the run below her office window and know that they're playing nice with my brother Ramses and our housemate Tigmut'hep... ;) Although I scratched my chin earlier in the week and made Mummy panic about my even being fit for the big cat show I think it's ok now and so even if I'm not looking quite my best I should be able to show! I just have to hope that all the other Abys at the show have some similar now! ;)

The other reason I'm sticking to Mummy like glue is that I'm sad about my sweet friend Storm leaving us this afternoon... I shall miss her very much, but have promised her to remember her and always be there for her wonderful Mum and loving brother Castle. I shall certainly do all these things my friend and wish you a peaceful crossing over the bridge...

Final Full Family Friday

Oh yes that time has come at last and the first of my kittens Dizzy (with the amazing ear tufts) will be leaving home to go and live with a lovely Fawn coloured lady Aby (Willow) and her humans! :) At least this means that these humans will be well house trained, just like Mummy and Dad are! ;) Actually having met them, I think Dizzy is going to have a wonderful life and I think he and Willow will be great friends in no time! :)

I hear I'm also due a bath! It seems I need to look my level best next Saturday for my cat show debut so will be getting all washed and brushed over the next few days as well as being booked in for a pawdicure next Thursday so that I have a chance to blunt off any little sharp edges they might leave to my full satisfaction. Apparently it's seen as poor form (or should that me paw form?!) to try and blunt your claws off on the Judges! ;)

Anyway since I only have a little while longer with my little Dizzy boy, I shall go now and leave you all with a couple of photos taken of the kittens last night. In the brown bed showing off his spot #13 as well as all his mancat bits is Dandy, cuddled up with is sister Delta. On the black blanket are Django and Dizzy! :)

Family Friday and Farewell Bonnie

Here's my sweet little daughter Delta Peach for Miss Peach as she's celebrating her 1st Blog Anniversary. Hasn't she grown into a little beauty, just like her namesake! :) She's such a sweety too and loves to cuddle and is nearly as passionate about all things milky as me, so much so that I occasionally have to point out her age when she starts looking at the milk bar all hopeful like! ;)

Other than that we've had some really sad news that our lovely friend Bonnie Underfoot has passed over the Rainbow Bridge. It seems her little heart just gave out and it's been a dreadful shock to her loving family as it was very much unexpected... Our thoughts are therefore with them and Victor who will be lost without his lovely grumpy Bonnie to thwap him and keep him in his place!

Family Friday

Well it's been rainy here for the past 48 hrs or there abouts and the kittens are driving everyone mad! They want to play, climb and run about and are doing so in the house... They are so bored with not having time in the run that they keep mugging me for more milk too and I have less places to get away from then too! While I understand their boredom and frustration at having to stay inside, they really do have to learn to behave a little better and tone their games down to match their surroundings... Using Mummy & Dad's bed head as a place to practice their tightrope walking skills really shows a lack of maturity and judgement on their part! The fact that they continued to do it until nearly 1am must have gone some of the way to getting all us cats and kittens alike locked downstairs last night... It seems beans don't nap enough during the day time to cope well with kittens landing on their faces while they're trying to get to sleep! ;) I too had to learn these lessons, though mostly the one about putting the bitey onto toes while the owner of said toes is sound asleep...

Other than that my entry form for the big Abyssinian Cat Show next month has been sent off and Mummy's started buying me lots of nice white bits for my show pen! :) They're all for me and will be kept specially clean just for showing me off on... Maybe I'll see a gorgeous mancat or 2 at the show! ;) Oh what do you mean I can't go making myself a belly full of kittens in the middle of the show hall Mummy?! What, not even if they're the bestest looking mancat ever?! Waaaa... It's not fair! Oh ok, I'll accept vast amounts of chicken and 'nip as a substitute for true love, as long as you promise I can have a whole week with a gorgeous mancat at some other time! ;) *giggle*

Family Friday...

Well I had a lovely time visiting with some of the kittens Mummy's and Daddy's over the weekend and this Sunday I have Django's Mummy visiting too, so I'm hoping for some more chicken to eat... You see Mummy gave me lots of really yummy chicken while the kittens new bean parents gave them a little too! :) Of course my brother Ramses got lots of chicken too for his Birthday and we're all greatly appreciating his catnip plants out in the run! ;)

Now that the kittens are getting bigger, I've noticed that I'm starting to think about mancats a lot again... ;) Well you need a nice friendly mancat in order to get yourself a belly full of kittens and I'd certainly like another one of those! :) But Mummy says I have to wait until the end of the year before I can go for another "holiday" with a gorgeous mancat... :( So now you know why I was moaning in her ear at 5am this morning! ;)

Oh and it's not my fault that the kittens woke up shortly after that... Nor it it my fault that they were all very hyper and wanted to play the "Bed Moles" game! I'm pretty sure I never told them that a "Bed Mole" can get a better bitey on the toes either... Though I think Mummy was expecting "Bed Moles" as she took the camera to bed last night and had it ready to take photographic evidence of the chronic "Bed Mole" activity! ;)

Anyway Dad's away tonight, so the "Bed Moles" will have more room to play in without nearly pushing Mummy out of bed, so hopefully she won't moan to me about them tomorrow morning... ;)

Family Friday

What can I say, but my son Django is a clumsy oaf! He first of all fell into the water bowl last night and in getting out of that stumbled into the food bowl and covered himself in stinky goodness... Well seeing as Mummy's not that fond of the smell of stinky goodness, coupled with the fact that I didn't fancy Tigmut'hep thinking he was a kitten shaped movable snack and was in fact dripping wet already, Mummy decided it best to give the little stinker a bath! While this is not something many cats or kittens appreciate, Django did well and has come out smelling way better at the other end of the process, even if he did have to spend a lot of the evening wrapped in a towel, being cuddled and dried off... ;)

This morning D'boy was running late for school, so the kittens got to go for a ride in the luxury carrier with me and Mummy! They were all very good and didn't do anything icky or antisocial other than mug me for some extra milk! ;)

Late Breaking News!!!!
My older sister Noodle has had 5 lovely ickle baby kittens this morning! Three little boys the same colour as mine, a little girl that colour too and one Blue Aby girl as well, with furs just like our Mum Candytuft has! :) I'm very proud of my sister Noodle and their Dad Frodo - this is his first litter of kittens, so it's all new to him! ;)

Family Friday

Wow, I can't believe the kittens are almost 6 weeks old already! They had a lovely visit with Dad's Mum yesterday and we all enjoyed some of Mummy's roasty turkey, Ramses and I even got gravy too! :) Oh yes the kittens loved having little bits of turkey to chew up and eat, it satisfied their urge to chew as well as the one to eat everything they find! ;)

This is my daughter Delta Peach having her first sniff of fresh air in the run yesterday afternoon with Mummy! :) Of course I came along too to make sure she behaved herself nicely and didn't squirm too much. I've been talking to her about acting in a ladycat like way, just like her namesake Miss Peach! This is all well and good until she sees something she wants to "bop" like a brother or Uncle Ramses tail, then it all goes to pot! ;)

It's only a little over a week to go until Mummy'll be taking the kittens to see Hubert Vet and getting them cuddled and fussed and told how incredibly cute they all are! I think I shall insist on coming along so she cat tell me what a wonderful Momma cat I am and how clever I am at producing such pretty kittens! :) He'll also give them each an injection to help make their immune systems work better at fighting off nasty stuff that could make them sick, so while this may hurt a little bit I've explained that it's to do them good and that they are not to put the bitey on Hubert's fingers, they are reserved for me! ;) We're lucky having a vet like him, as he appreciates the fact that he gets to handle a pretty large proportion of the Abyssinians born in the UK this year when he sees the kittens. Last year there were only 325 Aby kittens born and registered with the GCCF and he'll get to cuddle 4 at the end of the month! :)

Anyway it's nearly time for Mummy to make lunch, so I think I had better go see if there's any more of that yummy turkey around for me and the kittens to put the bitey on! ;)

Family Friday... or shoud that be Feeding Frenzy Friday?! ;)

Well as you can see the kittens have not only been growing, but getting into new stuff... Their dinner for a start! Now that Mummy's letting them help themselves from their bowls they have a tendency to just get in with the food and eat their way back out! ;) This does however have one advantage, I get a kitten dinner flavour kitten to groom afterwards and considering some of the other things they've occasionally managed to get themselves covered in this is far nicer on the palate! ;)
It seems that all the kittens like this new found sport, though some have honed their skills a little more... With the kittens tasting this good, I'm kind of surprised that my bother Ramses and our housemate Tigmut'hep haven't started trying to wash the kittens too! ;)

Family Friday

I was tagged to make a wish by my friend and fellow lovely Abyssinian TT. Well since I'm thinking of my little family today, my wish was easy to make...

The Rules

1. Think about what it is that you want more than anything, what your heart's desire and fondest wish is, and what it is that you would wish for if you were to see the above wishing star flame across the night sky.

2. Right click and SAVE the blank graphic below.

3. Use a graphics program of your choice and place your wish on this picture:

4. Post the Make A Wish Meme and your wishing star on your blog along with these rules.

5. Tag as many people as you like so that there can be wishing stars all across the Blogosphere and ask them to please link back to Linda so that we can see what wishes others have made and share those wishes with others.

Now for who I pass this wish to... Well that would be Daisy as I'm sure she can think of something wonderful to wish for (unlike Tigmut'hep's wish yesterday, though he did a nice thing in passing it to Ruis and all the KaTtEnPrAat's)