The one thing I am very disappointed about with our Airports is that I am really, really struggling to get decent photos of them. They are all gorgeous children with such appealing little faces yet in my photos they tend to look like blobs. Actually, I am sure that the settings on my camera are not right but until Graham has a chance to look at it for me you will all just have to put up with the "blobs".

Amaretto has now decided that as she is the "senior" mummy in the room, she will take it in turns to visit all the posh boxes and make sure the younger mummies are doing a good job. So far this morning I have found her in Lucy's box, and then an hour later she was found in Cointreau's box and in the meantime, poor Nocello is left having to feed The Airports as well as her own 2 babies. I actually wish that all mum's would just jump into Lucy's very large box, with all their babies and then all just share one box. Now wouldn't that be lovely :)

Tiny little eyes on our Airports are starting to show signs of opening up now which is adorable. Considering that they are Orientals and that 2 of them are Torties, they are actually very happy go lucky babies who don't even moan at me when I pick them up to kiss them or weigh them.

Our heating is now back on :) :) :) This means that at last I could open up the windows in the kitten room! Now you may think it's odd that the central heating is on, yet the windows are open but there is a very good reason for this. Central heating causes a dry heat in the home which can help bacteria etc. to thrive and it's not unusual for kittens who are kept warm by central heating to start off life with sticky eyes or a bit of conjunctivitis. So if the windows are open it means that lots of fresh air is coming in (yes some heat does escape) which helps to eliminate chances of any bacteria thriving yet the babies are still warm.

There are no photos in today's entries and the entries are quite short because I have had an awful lot to do today, including going to the tip, and we have 2 babies leaving tomorrow so I have a mountain of paperwork to sort out.

I really have no motivation at all for kitten diaries today which is probably apparent when you read today's entries. The darling Airports continue to thrive and I just can't help but smile as I watch them in their box sleeping or feeding from mum. Amaretto is such a doting mummy and I do sometimes feel that she is never given enough credit. The problem with Retto is that she is such a happy little cat who just wants to be loved, be warm, and out of all our Orientals, Amaretto is the one who is always in the background so to speak. Retto will probably only have 1 or 2 more litters after this one and they she will be spayed because she is now almost 5 years of age. She is such a darling cat though and we love her dearly and I just know that our little Airports will be just as perfect as their mummy is.

What do I say about our Airports today? It's so difficult because at this age they do absolutely nothing other than eat, sleep, and scratch each other during milk bar batters. There is no use me trying to put into words just how fantastic these little babies are because unless, like me, you have a real thing for Havana's and Torties, you could never understand just how special this litter is. Although I'm sure Teen certainly understands :)

La Guardia has the most gorgeous little tortie face with such a myriad of colours and the Tortie pattern on her face is something else whereas Kingsford Smith has much less tortie mingling at this stage.

This morning, each kitten diary will start off with the babies' colours and sexes. The sexes have got to be right because this time around, they were not sexed by me :) Instead, during Teen's visit yesterday, she very kindly sexed each of the babies for me and I trust her judgment far more than I do my own. Before I go into all that though, I would like to say a huge thanks to Teen and Tone for their visit yesterday and also for the loan of their fantastic kitten pen which we will need to use very soon and we'd have been well and truly stuck without it so thanks guys, you are absolute angels.

Our 3 Airports all made weight gains today, their first proper gains since they were born so it would appear that at long last, everything is starting to settle down now. Such a pity that Heathrow is not female because I'm sure if he had of been then there would be a strong chance he would have joined the Maroochydore home as he is a descendant from the gorgeous Maroochydore Vivianno. You never know though as the Sex Change Fairy has visited our home on more than one occasion ;) I am in love with our little Airports because I adore the Havana's and the Torties have, of course, always been a great love of mine so to get 2 Torties and 1 Havana in a litter is definitely the perfect litter for me. But no, we are not keeping any of these babies.

All diaries are the same today for a number of reasons, the first of which being that we lost Bakewell last night. I don't know if it's because perhaps he/she was born prematurely remembering that her mum delivered 3 more babies 2 days after she delivered Bakewell. As each day passed, Bakewell did not gain any weight and continued to make small losses each day. Losing Bakewell is a tremendous loss of a beautiful little fur child.

The 2nd and 3rd reasons as to why there are no entries today is because yesterday we had kitten families visiting our older babies so it was a very busy day and I didn't actually get yesterday's diaries online until today. Then we will be having the pleasure of Teen and Tone's company very shortly this afternoon which we are both really looking forward to. Diaries will be back to normal tomorrow with photos.

We do have some news this morning that I am totally thrilled about and that is the fact that one of our Havana's, Kingsford Smith, is in fact, an Oriental Chocolate Tortie. The reason I am so delighted with this is that we have not bred a Chocolate Tortie since we produced GR PR & CHA Schimmel Chilli Tequila (Kyla) in our first ever Oriental litter. I have such a soft spot for darling Kyla so to have finally produced another one 4 years later is marvellous. Of course there will only ever be one Kyla and I've never seen a Chocolate Tortie equal to her and doubt that I ever will, but I am sure that Kingsford Smith is going to be a little darling :)

The night passed by very quietly although that only thing that worries me a little is that Amaretto seems to spend as much time out of the box as she does in there. I can't help but think even though she only had the 3 babies that yesterday's birth has taken it's toll on her so it is a huge relief that Nocello is now being "Super Mummy" and when Amaretto isn't in the box, Nocello feeds the Airports as well.

Our Airports don't seem to mind which mother they feed from, so long as they have access to milk they are perfectly happy. Having now been in the box with Nocello and the Tarts for 24 hours, both mum's and all 6 babies smell the same.