I thought today was going to be a quiet day, but I was wrong! It seems that with a 13 year old boy, and a 10 year old boy, that no ammount of food in the house is enough. It also seems, that with 5 growing siamese and one aging black moggy, no ammount of food is also enough!
I bought a large chicken yesterday, and cooked it in the oven, for 2 1/2 hours. Well, I think I can say, that they have almost eaten the lot, the cats that is, not the kids! I put it down, and they swarm all over it! I also have some baked cooked egg shells, crushed, mixed in with it, to make sure they are getting enough calcium, as chicken alone is not enough.
And Fluffy knows where to find her sachets of whiskers that she likes, so she drags them around after me, Gollum just looks longingly at me, when bowls are empty! Lily sits on the oven hob, and speaks to me, in a very quiet voice, and looks at me, with those lovely eyes of hers, and my heart melts. She is soo big now, poor love, and she still has 3 weeks to go. And she just does not want to eat anything, unless it has tuna in it!
poor Percy has health problems, he has just had 10 teeth out, he has had a cancerous lump removed from his face, and he is now being treated for an over active thyroid. An over active thyroid, increases his appetite, which was huge in the first place, so when he is awake, he wants food, and he will sit and wait relentlessly, until he gets it.
I spoke about Carrie last night, so I will leave her be tonight!
Percy gave us a nice offering, just as I was putting food on the table in the lounge. He decided to 'bring up' the remains of a mouse he had obviously eaten earlier while outside.............it didn't help the appetite.
I have posted 2 photos today. One shows you Lily cleaning herself, You can just make our her large belly, she did not want to pose for the camera, and Fluffy is sleeping alongside her. And the other photo, was of them all sleeping on the landing, although I managed to miss out the head of Gollum!
I am starting to plan, all the things that I need for the birth of the kittens. Where Lil is going to go, what I need, how to organise all the other cats, as I don't know how they will react to new babies. There is so much to think about. I have stocked up on,
alcohol hand cleaning fluid
anti bacterial wipes
syringes for feeding babies if needed
baby bottles for mixing and steralising baby milk, if needed.
I have the electric heated pads, the little fleecy hats, with microwavable heated pads in them, big round microwavable heated pad ( bunny has the other!), scales to weigh babies.
I need to get, pampers mattress liners, as when the babies are born, there is a lot of mess, and I find these absorbent. Lots of cotton wool, dental floss, clean towels. By the time the babies are due, it will all be nicely organised, in a stack of little drawers.
The cats are running around like crazy things at the moment, I will wait until they go to sleep again, before I clean the litter trays out. Yes, I am tired tonight, the children have been a little testing, and lack of sleep does catch up with you.
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