4 Weeks Old

The kittens are getting more and more cute.

Most of them now pull themselves up on the sides of the box, but still have not figured out how to climb out.

They pounce on each other, bite (they now have tiny teeth coming in), swat, and tumble around.

It's a lot of fun to sit and watch them.

2 Weeks Old

The kittens are now two weeks old.

They all have their eyes open and are beginning to crawl a tiny bit on their wobbly legs rather than squirming around.  It is interesting that the large orange kitten had his (actually, we don't know which are boys and which are girls. We need to look up how to tell.) eyes open nearly a whole week before any of the other kittens opened their eyes.

This morning when I first saw them, all of the kittens were sitting up in their box looking around.  It made me laugh because up until their eyes were open, all they would do was squirm and nuzzle around, feeling with their noses and whiskers.  So it was funny to see all of them sitting there, looking this way and that.

Enjoy!

Fun at the Lake

Aww, I love this picture.

We had fun taking the Far G & G and Blake to Lake Tahoe.

I thought the bark on this tree looked sort of jigsaw-puzzle-ish.

It was a cool day at Tahoe, still early in the season, but the boys didn't care.

Hey, whatch you lookin' at?

The animals at the beach were rather bold, as most creatures at a populated park are.

The video below makes me laugh for a couple of reasons.  One is because of how the chipmunk looks when it eats--it's twitching nose is especially funny to me.  Two, is because of how Onion Ring freaks out at the end.

Witness the "Chipmunk Whisperer" below:

Visitors

The Far Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Blake came to visit us about a month before school let out.  The first thing we did was go hang out at the Bucket of Blood Saloon because that's our favorite place to go hang out.  Just kidding!  It was just a fun place to take a picture when we went to visit Virginia City.

Because of course we took the Far Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Blake to see Virginia City.

We took an underground mine tour of the "Best and Belcher" mine.  The entrance was located in the Ponderosa Saloon right in the middle of town and the mine went under the town and into the hillside.

This is the emergency escape route.  Luckily, we didn't have to use it.

We also checked out the Virginia City graveyard.  Hmmm, I guess the theme this time was "under the ground".

We think above ground is best.