Well here we are, another day in the lives of our Burps, and another day of wonderful weight gains, BUT, a day where I have managed to take individual photos as I've been promising to do :) Now I have no idea whether or not you will actually be able to see any changes in the babies between last weeks' individual photos and today's, but let me assure you that they are definitely growing and are definitely changing. They are actually becoming more and more beautiful every single day. Cointreau has done us very proud bless her. I will admit that I had to shut her in the en suite in our bedroom while I took the photos because she was not happy with the babies being placed on the bedding in front of the box to have have their pictures taken and she kept trying to take them off the bedding and put them back in the box. She honestly has no idea what is looming around the corner when her children are running around and totally ignoring her. They really are such a lovely little litter and it is actually nice to have an entire litter of Siamese babies because it's something we don't actually have that often as most of our children are Oriental kittens, or Ori's and Siamese in the one litter.

I'm not doing particularly well with photos this week as it's just so very busy here at the moment, particularly as all of our older babies are now tearing around the house like hooligans. You will be pleased to hear though that last night, we took some video footage of the Burps :) But don't get too excited as it will no doubt take us a few days before we can find the time to convert the video so we can put it on the web site. Take the footage is remarkably easy, it's the converting that is a very time consuming process but we will endeavour to get it online as soon as we can. I have extremely good intentions of taking some footage once a week, however, we will see what happens. The Burps are doing extremely well as per usual and I am still very happy with their weight gains. They are starting to becoming very defiant with Cointreau now though because they climb out of the box and refuse to climb back in when she tells them too so what she does is lie in the box, puts her head out and one of her paws and she then grabs the baby nearest to her. She pins the baby down and starts to groom him all over. She then attempts to drag the baby back in the box. For the most part, this does actually work although I fail to see how she is going to keep them under control in a few weeks' time when they are running around all over the place.

After dinner last night, I went into our bedroom to feed Cointreau again and to change her litter tray. You can imagine my surprise when the first thing I noticed was all 4 Burps lying on the carpet, just in front of the wardrobe where their box is. At the time, I assumed that Cointreau felt it was too hot in the box in the wardrobe so she must have taken all of her babies out of the box and just plonked them in a little heap on the carpet. I put the Burps back in the box, and laid some thick bedding down on the carpet in front of the box because I figured if she were to take them out again, at least they would have something softer to lie on than carpet. After all the evening cat duties were done, I went up to bed and after watching TV for about 10 minutes, Graham and I were just speechless as we watched all 4 Burps, one by one, climb out of the box, all of their own accord, onto the bedding where they promptly proceeded to go for little strolls. These children are only 16 days old and already are out and exploring! If I hadn't have witnessed it for myself, I don't think I would have believed it. What clever little babies our Burps are though :) I am very proud of them.

I'm still really pleased with our babies' weights as they are all over the 300 gram mark which delights me. Cointreau is doing a fantastic job with them as each day passes, our babies are becoming much more aware of their surroundings and they are moving about in the box an awful lot more now. I did mean to take individual photos of the Burps today but our Vax carpet washer put an end to that! One of our adults decided to come downstairs and throw up in spectacular fashion on the 2nd step from the bottom. I ran upstairs, grabbed the carpet cleaner, brought it downstairs only to find the flippin' thing is no longer working. We only bought in at the end of August so we were not impressed. It then took over 1 1/2 to find the receipt for it so we could take it back and exchange it. We took it back, realised we had forgotten something, drove back home, went back, exchanged it and bought a totally different model. Brought it home, put it together and then spent the next hour cleaning the carpet. As you can imagine my entire day is extremely behind now and it's a mad panic to try and get the entries online before I have to dash out to Tesco's and then to the vets to pick up some more Hills a/d. I did at least manage to get some photos of our Burps in their box.