Christmas Cat

Christmas Eve we went caroling at the Castelle's house.  Tammy wanted to give us all something so she took us out to her warehouse to get some candles.  While she got the candles everyone my family went googoo over all of her rescue cats.  Especially, a little 12 week old kitten that Tammy had literally rescued and brought home with her from her most recent trip to Hawaii.  We went home with candles and a lot of begging for a new kitty.  

When we got home Lily led the other kids in creating a powerpoint presentation about how they would make this work with 2 cats.  Well I guess I'm a sucker but I told them we could go pick up the cat for Christmas.  

They protected the dinning room with bubble wrap and old Amazon bags. and put their plan of kitty introduction into action.

She is an adorable little thing.  We planned on calling her her Nutmeg, but as Emmy said, "It just didn't stick" so the name search began.  Mack vetoed most ideas.

Ditten didn't love the new friend but was very curious.  The kitten on the other hand was begging Ditten to be her friend from the other side of the door.

Ping pong is a bit more difficult but a lot funnier when a kitten lays on the table and chases balls.

After much debate everyone agreed to name the kitten Shai.  The kitten proved to provide us hours of entertainment jumping and catching all cat toys and fake snowballs.  Her jumping skills were truly impressive like Mack's favorite basketball player, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.  So we bought a collar and made it offical.

There may have been some intense fighting over the tent - that was a favorite hang out for Ditten and she wasn't interested in sharing.

Ditten claiming territory ...

Shai making her own statement.

The kids couldn't get enough of this little cutie over Christmas break and Lily wanted to invite over all her friends just to play with Shai.

Once Mack left to go back to school the girls had to send him lots of Shai pics (Ditten ones too.  I think he misses the cats more than us 😉).

One morning I found Shai in this tree - Can you see her?

She also welcomed me home from my morning walk with her first catch.

She got a little to interested in my bath water and took a little bath herself 😂.

We think they have decided to be friends.  They still get crazy every now and then and chase and attack all over the house but it is just in fun...I think.  If only Shai would stop peeing in the bathroom sinks!  What cat does that?