Mancat Monday

As you know, our new Cabin Boy arrived a couple of weeks ago. Since then life has really changed around here - you would not believe how loud little humans can be - especially at 3am! Since Mommy and Daddy are so busy with the new baby, we've decided that real mancats help out with their little humans.

Right now Cabin Boy is sleeping in a bassinet in the big room with Mommy and Daddy. Dante was afraid the bassinet might float away and carry the Cabin Boy off so he has taken to sleeping in the storage basket underneath. Also, this way the brave First Mate can defend the baby against all attackers! Dante is certainly a fierce mancat!!

Captain Jack is helping out by guarding Callum's new room since he is not in it yet to protect it himself. As you can see, the fierce Captain is sacrificing his own self and comfort by sleeping on the pad on the changing table. Also, he has to make sure that its comfortable enough for our Cabin Boy to be laid on. Captain Jack is one brave kitty!!

Finally, brave Samwise is also helping out by guarding Callum night and day. Here he is sleeping alongside our little one to keep all of the bad dreams and nightmares away. Samwise is certainly an inspiration to all mancat woofies the world over!

Cabin Boy is Here!!

The kitties and crew of the Black Furrball are pleased to announce the arrival of our Cabin Boy, Callum Andrew. Callum was born on November 25, 2009 at 5:54am. He weighed 8lbs, 8 ounces and was 21 inches long.

Here he is sleeping in his bassinet in the hospital. Isn't he cute?

Here is a portrait of all of the human members of the Black Furrball. This was taken the day after Callum was born while Mommy and Daddy were still in the hospital with Callum. They were actually there for 5 days but it was okay because Uncle Dave came over lots to take care of us.

No member of the Black Furrball is consider ship shape and ready to sail without an examination from our personal V-E-T Aunt Susan. From the look on her face, he seems to have passed. Aunt Susan is little Callum's godmother.

Daddy took this picture Monday night while we were watching the Saints game. Callum enjoyed his first Saints game a lot!!

We are doing very well with all of the changes of bringing Cabin Boy home. Mommy and Daddy are making sure that we get paid attention to as much as possible. Daddy brought home a blanket of Callum's the day before he came home so we could get used to the new smells of the baby and Mommy has let us all look at him too. The only problem is Captain Jack and Dante both want to sleep in Callum's bassinet but other than that, things seem to be going quite well. Thank you all for your well wishes - we really appreciate them all!!

It's Getting Exciting Around Here!

Heya kitties! As most of you are pretty aware, our Mommy has a kitten in her tummy that will be coming out soon. Cabin Boy, as we call him, is due any day now and things are getting very exciting around our house!

On Saturday Nana and Grandpa came over and brought the coolest thing - a glider chair!

Mommy says it's to rock Cabin Boy in but as you can see from the picture, Captain Jack disagrees. It is now his favorite place in the house and Mommy and Daddy will rock it for him while he is laying on it and he just adores it! We do not know if he will share with Cabin Boy or not; we think he considers it his own pirate booty. Nana and Grandpa also brought over a cradle swing for Cabin Boy. Mommy says they are going to put the Captain in it and turn it on to see if he likes that rocking but Daddy is afraid he will like it too much and take it over too.

Mommy told us today that her very last day day hunting for a while is Wednesday. We is very excited that she will be home with us for a few weeks - 12 of them to be exact! YAY!!

Samwise is very excited that Thursday is Turkey Day. It is his absolute favorite holiday because he gets a ton of turkey which is one of his favorite foods. Mommy and Daddy were not going to take him to Nana and Grandpa's this year, just in case Cabin Boy decides to come (Mommy's nurse says the busiest day of the year for having babies is Thanksgiving), but Nana assures her they will bring Samwise home so he gets to go and have turkey and ham and dressing and all the good foods. He is so excited that he cannot wait.

Cabin Boy will be here soon. YAY!!!

Mancat Mystery Monday

Hiya mateys!! It's been a long time since our last blog post, we know, but Mommy has been a lazy person and has not been helping us. We will forgive her for now because dude, her tummy is HUGE! She's bigger than Dante even!! That's going to be one big kitten when he gets here!! And he will be here soon - probably this very month!! WOW!!

To follow up on our last post, we asked if you could guess the chef that Daddy was cooking with. Here's the picture again, you case you forgot.

Some of you guessed Alton Brown, and although you were close (we live in Atlanta and so does Mr. Brown), that is not who this is. This chef was on the show Top Chef a couple of seasons ago, he did not win but came in 2nd place, and has a very successful resturant here in Atlanta. Still no idea? Mommy says you have two other hints - people always remark on his hair AND he really really likes liquid nitrogen. Still no idea? Go here for the answer!!

Well, we had a very nice weekend here at the Black Furrball. On Saturday, Daddy put up the closet organizer in our pirate hang out- we mean in the Cabin Boy's room. Captain Jack tried to take many naps in the new crib, but Mommy kept squirting him with water and running him out every time she caught him. Maybe one day he will learn.

On Saturday night the beans went to Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave's house for Halloween celebrations (we stayed home and napped) and Mommy met a NEW KITTY! Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave woke up the day of Halloween to find a solid black kitty sitting on their front porch - very Halloween like. Right now he is staying in their basement and Aunt Susan is taking him to work today because he has a limpy leg that she wants to look at. Mommy says he is very very sweet - he crawled into her arms and purred lots and made biscuits all over her shoulder.

Mommy made up for being gone all Saturday night by staying home and laying around with us on Sunday. Daddy went to work at the resturant all day so we had her home to ourselves. Captain Jack slept on her and we all watched bad tv and took naps. YAY!! Have a great week kitties!!

Wordless Wednesday

Mommy Update Monday

Hey kitties! Someone of you and your beans have asked how our Mommy and little Cabin Boy are doing, so we thought we would use this Monday to tell you all about it. First of all, Mommy has gotten big and fat! We are not kidding, she has! Just look!!

Mommy took this picture of herself last weekend for our Aunt Adri who asked her how big she is. She says she was 27 weeks pregnant here so that means she has 13 more weeks (less than 12 now) to get even bigger! We wonder how Mommy will fit out the door soon - she is bigger than our house!!

On a serious note, we have been doing a good job of keeping Mommy's blood pressures down and of making sure she gets plenty of rest. Her blood pressures are still borderline high, but the doctor thinks all will be well there. Unfortunately, right when we get this fixed, something else pops up. Mommy had to have a test a little over a week ago to make sure the sugars in her bloods are okay - well, she failed that test. Flunked it bad. This means that tommorow she has to go to a LAB place for three whole long, boring, hours to have another sugar in bloods test run. They is going to steal her bloods FOUR TIMES kitties! Its bad!! If she fails it, no more ice cream for us!! Can you believe it?? We really really hope she passes this test! Maybe we should help her study for it. What do you kitties think?

Finally, we just wanted to tell you - all of our bestest kitty, woofie and bean friends, thank you so much for all of your love and support. Mommy says that it has been a challenging time growing the Cabin Boy in her tummy, but it will all be worth it when he gets here. Thank you again. We really appreciate it and are truly touched by the outpouring of purrs, purrayers and love!

Our Pirate Den is No More

Kitties, we had a very traumatic weekend. We learned some bad news - our very own pirate den room is being taken away from us and the humans are giving it to the Cabin Boy! You see kitties, we've always had the "guest room" as our room - our big bed was in it and some of our toys. The room was gated off so only kitties, and no woofies, could come in. It was the room that Fagin stayed in when he first came to live with us. Well, a few weekends ago Daddy and Uncle Dave took all of the furniture out of the rooom - even our bed! We heard them say they was going to paint it so we thought "Finally! They are going to fix up our pirate den in a way that befits such rare and fierce pirates as us three!" Aunt Susan came over and they put all this white putty stuff on the walls and Mommy showed us the color she choose to paint it - its called "Drifting Dunes" which is pawsome cause pirate hangouts should be sand colored right?

We got all excited until we heard Mommy and Daddy talking - they renamed our pirate room "The Baby's Room." Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE GIVING OUR ROOM AWAY TO THE CABIN BOY!! NOT FAIR!!! And then we heard the woman that claims to be our mother say she was going to lock us out of the room because she did not know how else to keep us out of the crib. How dare she!! Kitties, we are going to rebel - we will not stand for this!! How could she?!?!

(PS: This is the Purrageous Mom. Does anyone out there have any ideas other than utter banishment of the kitties from the room? They adore that room but I do not want them sleeping in the Cabin Boy's bed and I know that space will be way too tempting for the kitties. I hate to lock them out, but I think I might have to. Thanks!)

Thankful Thursday

We wanted to take a moment to say Thank You to all of you - our wonderful kitty, woofie, and bean friends. You have been so wonderful to us and our Mommy over the last month, that we cannot express how grateful we are. As you know, Mommy has been sorta sick with the kitten that is in her tummy, and we've had some real big scares. Knowing the entire time that we had such wonderful friends purring and purraying for us really helped. We truly think that it is what has been keeping Mommy and Cabin Boy healthy and off of bedrest and out of the hospital. Thank you all!