El Gatito Nuevo - Aceituna

Olive is growing bigger almost everyday and it's astonishing to see such rapid growth. She plays hard and sleeps hard, all while steering clear of Ermie, who has turned into an grumpy, old, growling lady.

Luke is especially taken with her. He carries her around nonstop and I can tell these two are going to be napping buddies, once she's a little bigger, of course.


As for these two, they have an interesting relationship. He sneaks up on her when she's sleeping and scares her half to death, while she jumps on him around my bedtime and starts attacking his feet. Aidan laughs with sheer delight, but I sure hope these two learn to get along. Even in this picture she's trying to bite our baby!


Her biting really is a problem. It's annoying. It's painful. Thank goodness she's just learned to respond to our emphatic no's. If it weren't for that we really would have followed Jay's suggestion and renamed her "Bug." Man, does she bug.


But we just love her sweet little face.


And her adorable little leopard markings.


And just when she's fooled us into thinking that she's finally growing up and is ready to act like a lazy old cat, she'll go and remind us what she really is.