Pretty Penelope

Our little Penelope is growing up fast!

She's almost seven months old already!

Seems like just yesterday that she was a tiny kitten.

I haven't tried to weigh her lately but I know she's grown a lot

She's been slowly loosing her kitten features and looking more and more like a big girl.

We love her so much and we're so glad we picked her!  She seems very grateful that we picked her too.  She gives us lots of kisses and she's the most loving kitty we've ever had.  She likes to start each and every day with snuggle time before we get out of bed.  She likes to gaze into my eyes and put her paw on my face while I rub her belly and back.  So cute!  And, she likes to be next to us or in the same room just about all the time.  She even loves our doggy, Salsa.  They love to play and chase each other.  Penelope likes Salsa's bed too.  She'd probably snuggle up with Salsa but Salsa's isn't quite sure she likes that.  So, she always gets up and lets Penelope have her huge bed while she lays on the floor.  Pretty funny!  

We love our little furry family members!

They put smiles on our faces every day and warmth in our hearts.  

Snuggle Bug

Salsa, our Airedale, has seemed a little sad about Duchess (our kitty) being gone.  And, it's been hard for her to see us sad.  She's been sticking closer to us than ever and even puts her paw on our knee and looks into our faces with love and concern as if she wants very badly to help us.  But, she's also very happy to have our daughter home from college.  Her little heart loves us so much that it amazes me.  

The loss of Duchess has caused us to allow Salsa on the family room sofa.  She loves that very much.  She's decided that snuggling with us is quite nice.  She was snuggling with our daughter on the sofa a couple of evenings ago.  Look...she's holding her hand... 

Love.

So happy!

She's always in the kitchen when we cook.  We joke that she likes to help and is our sou chef.

She decided that "helping" our daughter cook last night meant snuggling next to her by the stove.

She snuggled with us on New Year's Eve.  She laid between hubby and I as we sat on the sofa.

"What'cha doin' Mom?  Are you taking my picture again?"

She started to get a little too warm from snuggling.  So, she went over to another part of the sofa, pushed all of the blankets onto the floor and stretched out to cool off.

Just had to include a photo of her from Christmas morning.  This was before her recent haircut.  So, she was a bit wild and woolly   She watched and waited as each gift was unwrapped and we wadded the paper and threw it across the room for her to tear up.  Fun!

We love our little snuggle bug!

Please excuse the photos as they were all taken in low light with my cell phone.

Have a wonderful weekend!  :-)