As you can see, Molly (left) and Toby are thriving and growing larger. They’re absolutely hilarious, jumping all over everything in the garage and chasing each other. They have no fear of us left; they go straight for my shoelaces and ankles the moment I walk in the door, then jump up on an old deck chair to be petted.

I had forgotten how much fun kittens are. When we lived on the farm when I was a kid, we started out with 5 kittens and ended up with 27. Shocking, eh? They had 16 acres to roam and were never in the house, but we play with them constantly. We dressed them in doll clothes, fed them milk with doll bottles, and rolled them around in doll carriages. Virtual babies. When I sent my sister these pictures, she responded by saying, “Wouldn’t they look cute in bonnets? :) Well of course they would!

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