Some Kitten Pics

We have enjoyed having the kitties join our family. Lily still wonders what we were thinking but the rest of us are pretty thrilled.

Caly was hilarious playing with the balloon, I am fairly certain the video does not do it justice

Hobbes likes to play the piano at times

Lily snoozing with Kate

 Caly and Hobbes are intrigued by the water, though Caly is the most curious, she often dips her paw half way in the water when a bath is happening and really wants to climb in. She hasn't yet but we shall see.

 I had a cute Halloween table cloth on the table. When I came downstairs I saw Caly on the empty table, and Hobbes on the table cloth on the floor! These kittens!

Lily likes the windowsill cat bed too, but Caly wasn't sure she wanted to share

Enjoying the window sill bed we bought.

Kittens!

We would like to introduce the newest Smoldon Family members...Caly and Hobbes! (If you know Jeremy you may remember his fondness for a certain comic strip). They are siblings who were strays and have an estimated birthday of 1/1/19. Caly is a female tabico (tabby/calico mix) and Hobbes is a male orange tabby. They have been wonderful entertainment and love to run around, chase things, wrestle, cuddle and stalk Lily trying to get her to play with them. Lily is surviving the change but still wishes to be left alone (though she has allowed an odd lick or two from Caly). She has claimed my legs on the bed and is quite vocal about her displeasure when a kitten comes and invades her space. Here are some pics the past couple months with our new littles.

They decided nap time one day should be on the bath mat.

The kids love them and love to get pics taken with them

Some snuggling

Lily suffered through Caly being behind her but when Hobbes came in front she fairly quickly had enough and got down

More kid snuggles, sometimes appreciated, every once in awhile not so much.

This was early on and about how close Lily (far right) would allow a kitten to get on the bed, now if she just has a foot or so she is ok.

Caly made it a little hard for Kate to see her show.

Synchronized grooming. These last few are from their first couple days home with us.

Lily plays chess

 Lily decided to play chess one day. Haha

Odds and Ends of October

October was a busy month. We had 3 sets of family visit, celebrated Kate's birthday took many fun outings exploring the area and of course had Halloween to celebrate. This post is the odds and ends of Oct.

Jaydon really got into cooking, he was excited to make these cookies with help from Granny! Kate really just came along for the photos and to do a little decorating.

Kate helped make dinner one night with Granny

This cat bed Jeremy bought Lily for the drive down to our new house has been a hit with her!

Jaydon continues to wow his teachers and does a great job at school

Jaydon had a huge bike accident and fortunately was wearing his helmet. His was definitely sore but luckily only had a couple bad scrapes on his face and nothing more serious.

Kate (and Lucy though Lucy's class was when the gym was super full so I didn't get any pics) did a gymnastics class through our local parks and rec. They both enjoyed it but are both ready to be enrolled through the actual gym facility not the parks and rec for next time.

Kate enjoys reading stories

I took this pic and sent it to my family as proof it did rain! This was almost 2 months after we had moved in and it was the first precipitation we had, the kids were also out at the playground within an hour of it ending!

Jaydon created this ship at Cal Fit (the gym we go to) and wanted a pic

 We came home with balloons from Kate's party and Lily was in heaven!

Grandpa and Nana came into town and we ate out on the river boat and toured the capital, it was fun.

Grandpa and Nana's dog Ziggy.

I got invited to bunko night and enjoyed meeting a lot of women who have kids at school with my kiddos.

One bummer is we missed the Leighton's Halloween Pumpkin Party for the first year since it restarted. Luckily Jen and her family attended so I got some pics from afar.

Uncle

Auntie and Cousin A (with Hilde looking on)

Carving those pupmpkins

Cousin E

Nona and Cousin A with Hilde just hoping for a snack.