Lexie

At the beginning of June Justin and I got an adorable 7 week old kitten named Lexie. She's about twice the size now that she was when we got her, but she's still really cute.

It took 5 or 6 days for Emmie to settle down with a new cat in a house. We showed them to each other on the first night. Lexie didn't care, obviously, but Emmie freaked out and started hissing. We had to keep Lexie locked in a room. But we waited just long enough so that when we let Lexie out Emmie didn't hate her anymore.

Lexie and Emmie are in love. Look at Lexie gazing at Emmie adoringly:

Here's another one of the early ones where I caught them napping together:

And another time that I found Emmie completely draped over Lexie:

Lexie had her face buried in his belly too, but when I started taking pictures she looked over at me. I interrupt a lot of naps.

Silly Emmie

When we first got Emmie, she felt that she had to be with us all the time. She was almost more high maintenance than a baby. She always had to be on our laps, no matter where we were or what we were doing. Eating was a huge challenge, because she would sit on our lap and try to get at our food the entire time.

Then we got the magic spray bottle. Emmie cringes when we walk towards her while holding it (it actually makes me feel really bad!). She doesn't try to get at our food while we're eating anymore. But occasionally she will do something amusing. Like this:

Hmm, that's interesting.

Don't even think about it, Emmie.

Emmie

Back in September we decided that maybe getting a kitten would be a good idea. I was against this for a long time because of several reasons (cat hair, litter boxes, extra expenses, etc.) Then Justin sent me an email saying that one of his co-workers had kittens she was giving away, and that one of them was a cute little girl with an M on her forehead; so we could call her Emmie!!

Somehow this got to me, and by that evening I wanted that cat... RIGHT NOW! We couldn't get it until the next day, but as soon as we went to look at the little cutie we were both in love.

The fact that we found out 3 months later that our little Emmie was really a little boy is beside the point.