We have a love/hate relationship with our cats. Really hate is too strong of a word, we (meaning Waldo and myself) are driven nuts by them. We feel bad for them, they used to be the babies and got all the love they could absorb. They slept on our beds and us, they were always on our laps, they sat on our monitors and desks. Then Lily came into our world and the cats were just in the way. Lily sleeps in our bed so we didn’t want them even in our bedroom for fear that she would be allergic. We have loosened up on this one now that we know she’s not allergic or asthmatic, they still don’t get to sleep with us but they hang out in our room during the day. Lily is always on my lap and if she’s not for two seconds then one of the cats is trying to jump on me. Sometimes I just want my lap to be free of all sitters. They still sit on our desks sometimes but not the monitors anymore but that has nothing to do with Lily, we replaced all of our CRTs with flat panels over time. Boy you should have heard all the thumping when we got our last flat panel and Kitty kept trying to sit on it. LOL.

Where does the love come in to play in this love/hate thing that I’ve been talking about. Lily is that love. She LOVES the cats. She just lights up when she sees them. She points and smiles, she talks to them and at them. We have worked for months on her being gentle with them and she is very good. She does like to poke them in the eye and ear and we sort of encourage that. They know that when they’ve had enough of her to just walk away and we want them to remember that. But let me tell you they will take a lot of Lily’s “loving” before they walk away.

We have three cats as I’ve mentioned in the past and if I ask Lily where Kitty/Jingle/Tandy is she gets it right about half the time or so.  And this summer I’ll be very glad we still have them, they are great at keeping the bug and spider population in check.  So I guess they deserve a little love for that alone.

I have to admit that Lily’s love for them is so sweet that I will happily take the annoyance.  I just hope for all of our sakes she continues to think they are pretty darn cool.

Kitty loves Lily too

This is very common

Lily took her first step yesterday very unintentionally. It was so exciting. Waldo had just got home and she wanted down so she could go see him. I put her down on her feet and rather then sit down and crawl like normal she lifted one leg and moved it forward and then kind of got this look like “what the heck just happened” and down she went as Waldo and I clapped and said yay.

We are in no big hurry for her to walk because hello she’s already mobile and fast enough. But that makes these wonderful milestones no less exciting. Speaking of milestones, this one is totally screwing up our sleep. For the last couple of nights she wakes up and starts trying to roll away or more often stand up. Between this and a slight stuffy nose and teething I am one tired Mama.

This picture has nothing to do with this post I just think it’s very cute.