They are a climbin'!

It has been a couple of days that we have been busy with some non-kitteh specific activities. We have spent a lot of time still with the kittehs, just other things like Scott Kelby’s 2nd Annual Worldwide Photowalk, buying a new car and working on a bathroom renovation have kept us from taking many photos of the kittehs or reporting about them.

The biggest news, they are now just over 3 weeks old and all rough housing with each other more and getting very interested in climbing things. We have a towel over the side of the tub to cover the gentle heat, extended time heating pad. It is also secured a little firmer by having a shelf placed over part of the tub giving them a little covered area to play under out of the light. It is to serve as additional space where we can place the scale and litter box for when they are big enough to start using it.

They have been climbing the towel along the side a lot and some are getting very, very good at it. We are nearing the end of their time of knowing they are in the tub and not out and about somewhere in the bathroom or bedroom.

Mydnight is extremely quick with his climbing now. He will scale up the side in an instant when you come to see them. He isn’t too sure what to do when he gets up to the side so that is usually as far as he goes.

We do have a little kitteh ramp on the other side covered with another towel in case they want to try their hand and descending down to the bathroom floor. So far, noone has really given it a try.

Smirk would have to be the closest to give the ramp a try but only goes part way on the top. She seems to be more interested in getting on top of the shelf over the bathtub. She went for an exploration all around it this morning with a very watchful and chirping Clousette telling her to be careful and being nearby in case she needed to assist her. Smirk took her adventure carefully and didn’t need any help to move around or get back into the tub. She checked out the edges but made sure not to go over anything that was too high for her.

Ash is also getting to be a good climber so if she is, we know they all are ramping up to make outside the tub adventures as she has been the last to try everything.

They are all walking a lot better and some almost running. It isn’t quite a run but a fast walk with the occasional bounce and back legs jumping sideways to catch up to the rest of their bodies.

Mike is gone for a few days for work so I shall see what I can do to get some more photos. However, I am not sure how well that may work as we have been finding it increasingly more difficult for Mike to keep a handle on them all on the bed. They are quick and all like to take off in different directions at the same time. It is cute but definitely a handful and only bound to get to be more of a handful but we are loving every minute of it. I may have to fall back to taking video this week which may be a better alternative for practicality as well as just as cute as their climbing and antics are adorable to watch. Just the tub isn’t all that exciting to see them play in.

We are trying to introduce them to kitten replacement milk to get them used to lapping up things as we can see their little teeth coming in and mamma is likely going to try to start getting them to not use them on her. Mamma loves the replacement milk that the kittehs have hardly gotten a chance to see what it is. I tried giving her a bowl of her own so that she might give the kittehs a chance to investigate theirs but they had different ideas... they wanted to see what mamma was having and mamma was hogging it all lapping it up in pure happiness. If it keeps her nursing them better and longer, we are all for it but trying to be sure that when she thinks enough is enough, the kittehs have another avenue and know how to do what they need to do.

It is continued good kitteh times...