Our Christmas present

Mummy and Daddy bought us this enormous scratching post for Christmas this year.

It's so fun! We are still exploring it.

James

Christmas Day at our house

Everyone having a nap! Three cats and Papa! There is no space for me!

Here I am sleeping on the couch with Papa's belt around my head

Elmo

Missing papa

Papa was away for 1 week and I was missing him terribly. Vicki gave me a hug and we fell asleep together on the bed.


I am so glad Papa is home now.

Amedeo

I am a handbag!

Mummy recently rearranged her hand bags and I find it very comfy in her hand bag closet. I often pretend to be a hand bag so she lets me sleep in there ;-)

Elmo

Secret hiding spot

Mummy discovered my secret hiding spot for my afternoon nap! It's her bedroom closet.

It's snug and comfortable here

Wonder if she will find me

Oh oh, she found me!

Elmo

I'm in trouble!

Papa scolded me today for attacking James. He put me on the sofa and told me off.

Amedeo

First there were two, then three

This is the first time we were able to find James and Amedeo sleeping side by side without killing each other.

And then Vittorio managed to join them without any major hassles too! Let's hope it lasts.

Lynette

This is how I sleep

Human beings sleep with their long pillows called 'lam zhums' but I use mummy's leg when I sleep. It works the same way!


Elmo

How are you doing my darlings?

Hello Darlings,

Mummy is visiting her family in Sydney. How are you all doing? I miss you all very much. Ah Fang tells me you guys have been wrecking the house. I hope you don't tear it all to bits before mummy comes home.

I shall be home very soon, another week but in the mean time, I will be thinking of you all every day.

Be good and don't fight with each other.

Mummy

Here are some pictures of me

Aunty Lynette is visiting at the moment and she just loves these pictures of me!

Mosey

Settling In

We are slowly settling into No 8. Mummy and Daddy have gone away so we have the house to ourselves. Mummy is hoping we don't kill each other and pee and poo everywhere.

If you look very closely, all 4 of us are in the same room. There is Vicki sleeping on the sofa to the right of me, James on the floor and Elmo sleeping on the chair.

This is me and Vicki sleeping on the same red couch a few days later.

Amedeo

Afternoon naps

It's time for our afternoon nap so here we all are in different parts of the house:

That's me hidden under the pillows. Mummy had a hard time finding me.

James (Mummy likes to call him Jaimsey)

Amedeo (he's feeling depressed as he cut his lip and now he sleeps all day and refuses to go outside and play).

Elmo

My Papa and I

This is me Vicki (Vittorio). My Papa says I am either eating or sleeping. I like to sleep during the day. I've grown heaps because when I first came to live with Papa, I was skinny and very scared of everyone but now I am not scared of anyone, or almost anyone!

This is my Papa working on the computer. He has a frog on his head.

Vittorio

We don't like to bathe

Mummy likes to wash Elmo and I once in a while. She doesn't understand that we clean ourselves every day so we don't need to be washed. We hate the water and we always scream and shout but she doesn't take the hint.

This is us (very fluffy) on the bed after our bath. The only consolation is that we smell good!

James

Don't wake me up please!

Mummy wants to wake me up but I told her to go away!

Mummy says Vittorio and Amadeo is going to come and live with us very soon. That means there will be 4 of us to play! I think it will get very messy!

Elmo

Our bed time ritual

James and I have a bed time ritual that mummy never fails to understand. Last night, she was working on the bed trying to update her strategy for her school and this is what we were doing:

This is me preparing to pounce on James.

This is James looking at me.

Our fight sequence!

This is James resting on mummy's right side after our fight.

This is me resting on mummy's left side after the ordeal.

This is me sleeping because it's exhausting!

Elmo

I am obsessed with pens

I love pens! Once mummy left a bunch of pens on the table and I stashed it all away under the carpet. She found it a few months later when she was cleaning up and she was so mad!


James

Lonely lonely lonely!!

MUMMY!

DADDY!!

Please play with me!

Mummy has been sick the past few weeks and Daddy has been taking care of her.

I am LONELY!

Mosey

Who says sleeping is not good for you?

Exactly! No one! James is an independent cat and he doesn't need mummy as much as I need mummy plus I am younger too!

When mummy is home, I never go outside to play. I like to sleep on her lap while she works on her computer. As long as I don't jump onto her keyboard, she doesn't mind.

At night, I like to sleep on mummy's pillow on top of her head but sometimes she is annoyed at me because my fur is so thick that she gets hot. When it gets cold, I crawl under the covers and sleep hugging her leg. I think she likes that better but then she complains that she can't move with me sleeping under the covers and James outside the covers. She is hemmed in by the two of us. Secretly, I know she likes having us around.

A few nights ago, James and I decided to test this by sleeping outside in the living room and mummy came downstairs in the middle of the night to look for us but we hid from her and she was very annoyed or maybe she was disappointed that we didn't come.

Mummy and I had an afternoon nap today but now I feel sleepy again so I think I am going to lie down. Maybe mummy will feed us soon otherwise I will have to go in search of some grass.


Elmo

Eating grass

Why is it that these boys of mine eat grass? It's not as if they are not well fed because they get fed twice a day. James just came running up to me trying to tell me he's had enough outside and wants to come inside to check out what I am doing.

They have so far destroyed all the plants in my house so my home is now devoid of beauty because of them. Now when they run outside, they attack my plants and eat the leaves. Then after 5 minutes, they vomit everything out. If I am lucky, they vomit outside but sometimes they decide to vomit inside just to annoy me.

Sometimes they carry dead leaves into the house and then proceed to crack them all up, scattering all the pieces in every corner of the living room. It drives Ah Fang (our maid) mad because she has to clean it up.

Lynette

About Us

This is me, James. I'm hiding in my favourite place, the bathroom towel closet. By the way, I am almost 2.5 years old!


This is my brother Elmo. He's always sleeping and this is his favourite position, close to mummy's pillow. He is actually much smaller than this picture makes him out to be. Somehow, he is elongated here! Elmo is almost 1 year old.


This is our cousin Moses. As you can see, he is talking to us on MSN when mummy isn't looking.

It's Chinese New Year and mummy is staying at home with us all week. I think she will be working quite hard though because she said something about doing the gardening and cleaning up all the dead leaves and filing all her paper she has all over her desk. I'm glad she is home as she works at a cooking school and is sometimes away for long hours.

Mummy is mad at me because I tried to get out of the house a few times. She fenced in the front garden where the drain is but I managed to work at it every day when she let me out and then one day 2 weeks ago, I managed to work a hole out of the fence and ran off. She didn't find out until a few hours later but by that time, I had explored all the drains around the area. She ran out shouting my name and I ran off to meet her but when I saw her face, I knew she was really angry so I started to run towards the house and in my haste, I ran into the neighbour's house instead and she ran in and just grabbed me and gave me a good whack! So now she has secured the hole with 2 flower pots and I have to find another way to get out.

Elmo is not very adventurous because whenever mummy is home, he just follows her around like a puppy. I think he is just getting fatter and fatter even though mummy has put the both of us on a diet. I feel like eating all the time!

James