As stated in the Potters' diary entry, the entries over the next few days will be short as I have been avidly watching the Olympic games and taking some time out to enjoy our Aussie athlete's performances. I noticed during the day today that all our Gumnuts eyes are now open which is great. They all have gorgeous little eyes :) Amaretto kept putting babies in our bed last night and I kept putting them back in the box. For some reason, it's always Cuddlepie that she picks up and carries around. I don't think we'll be able to keep them in the bedroom for too much longer as she really does want a new home for her babies now.

I'm pleased to say that Banksia Man now has his left eye fully open and his right eye partially open so within the next day or so, I will be expecting to see 6 little eyes peering at me. Banksia Man still objects very strongly to being weighed, picked up, looked at and held. It's funny though when I'm holding him, Amaretto will go into the box and sit on Snugglepot and Cuddlepie to make sure that I don't get my hands on them as well. She's a very protective mother. Weight gains are still very good and all babies are feeding extremely well. They are starting to move around a bit more now and trying to crawl about. Amaretto was very restless last night and I can't help but think she is looking for a new "home" for her babies. I really need to get them out of our bedroom and into the kitten room, however the kitten room is currently taken up with Tia Maria who is still calling. Hopefully it won't be too long before the Gumnuts can move home.

Amaretto was not happy today as I must have not closed the bedroom door properly and Gino (one of the R's) got into the room. Fortunately, Mo was upstairs at the time and noticed and called me straight up. Amaretto must have had a go at Gino who was under the bed all bushy tailed with her hair standing on end. The Gumnuts were not phased by any of it, but as they're not old enough to be really thinking or moving anyway, that's no surprise. Once I had removed Gino from the room and checked the Gumnuts were all fine, Amaretto settled back into bed with them but not before glaring at me! Obviously she is blaming me for the whole fiasco! Snugglepot and Cuddlepie both now have their eyes fully open and what beautiful little eyes are they as well :) Banksia Man seems to be much slower at opening his eyes. I had a thorough look at him today just to make sure that everything is okay though and his eyelids aren't swollen, there's no "crusty bits" there, it's just a case of him not being ready yet. Although his left eye had started to open slightly in one corner so I'm sure it won't be too long now. Unfortunately there's no photos today as after I finished downloading the Potters photos, the camera batteries died.........yet again!!!! I really must thank Lesley today for letting me have a moan to her about kitten/cat related problems and for making me laugh and realise that you do cope with everything, despite what you think and that chances are, I will look back on this time and laugh and wonder how I managed.

I'm thrilled that we have reached the 1 week old stage, although they aren't actually officially a week old until between 8pm and 9:32pm tonight. Both Snugglepot and Cuddlepie are developing colour on their ears and noses now which is looking decidedly blue but I was expecting them both to be Blue Points anyway so no surprise there however it's still really wonderful to see the colour starting to come through. When I changed the bedding today, Amaretto was most put out. I put the babies on our bed while I put new bedding in there and Amaretto jumped up onto the bed, picked up Snugglepot and carried her back into the box. Obviously I need to be much quicker at bed changing! It's the first time that she has ever actually picked up any of her babies to carry them somewhere.