Just an update - both kittens have eyes fully open now! Sum has been given his/her official name as Bennie by his/her adoptive mommy, Eric. Dim will keep his/her temporary name for now. Dim is starting to move about a lot more now, and is VERY much a cat - takes baths, meows and already displaying signs of an attitude problem. Bennie is taking his/her sweet ass time in gaining weight/size. I wish I had an accurate enough scale so that I could keep track of Bennie’s weight to make sure there is SOME growth. Nothing seems out of place except the smallness, so maybe Bennie is just a little kitty - and that’s ok. I’m just a worry-wart.

In other news, my new power adapter is here, so the Kittycam is back online!

Mr. B is still afraid of the kittens too.. >^.^<

Not too much has happened since the last update. The kittens kinda stay in the same place - little lumps of fluff attached to Lizzy.

They’re both getting both growing, Dim more rapidly than Sum.. over the last few days their little kitty ears have started to open up, and Dim’s eyes are just barely starting to open now! I’m sure Sum’s eyes will open in the next day or two as well - then all hell is going to break loose as they start their reign of cuddly terror.

The kittens were born sometime between 6 pm and 11.30 pm on January 13th. Unfortunately I wasn’t home at the time, which is something I would have preferred - I’m the over-protective type when it comes to my kitties and I would have liked to have witnessed it! Oh well.

Lizzy delivered three kittens total, but one of the little guys didn’t survive the process somehow. Since I wasn’t home I’ll never know what happened. But the surviving two are the most amazing little creatures! I already have homes for them, but I needed to call them something until they go off to their new lives so I named them Dim and Sum, since they look like the little chinese dumplings you’d see at a dim sum restaurant. And of course its a terrible pun.

Dim is the bigger of the two and is the one with the orange spot right above the nose. Sum is visibly smaller but is VERY feisty when Dim is pestering him. Its been a while since I was around newborn kittens and I had forgotten just how tiny they are! Lizzy is a fabulous mother though - she’s really protective and makes the funniest noises! Whenever I pick up a baby to give it a kiss her paw always shoots out and lands on my hand with that sort of “YOU BE CAREFUL WITH THAT NOW OK??” look on her face. Amazing.