HAPPY BIRTHDAY KITKAT!!!!

Our baby is 1 years old today.  A year of the good and the bad. The attacks and the cuddling. The cute and the ugly.  The laughter and the yelling. Playing and running away!  Us and him!  Should he stay or should he go?  A whole year of this. And it has been worth every day, hour and minute. This cat has so much personality!

He loves Lauren!  They are really close.  And he loves Papa! He follows him like a dog!  He wakes him up at 5 a.m. for breakfast and to go outside. Any time papa goes to the front porch with Toby to sit...Kitkat will sit in the window watching and cry and cry until papa goes to the back yard to sit. If we are both in the house he wants one of us outside with him. Not always but he lets us know.
He has always loved being with papa!

When he is affectionate he wants papa to sit in his chair with his blanket on his lap and up to his neck (and only his blanket will work) ...then Kitkat climbs up and starts sucking on the blanket and kneading it.

He is so noisy when he does it and he likes papa to pet him. If papa stops the cat will eventually touch him in the face with his paw to get him to do it. It is so cute and funny.

When Lauren kisses him too much he puts his paw on her mouth.

When we first got him I thought he was adorable. We went through several names: Sherbet, Pib (pain in butt), and a few more. But Kitkat won out and fits him. Not long after we got him.... he started getting comfortable and acting like a kitten. Cute but awful. He got into everything and there seemed to be no boundaries with him! These sum it up...

I loved these ones because that was how he was growing up!  The best thing about him was he never went potty outside his litter box...not ever.

The big change in him came when we got him fixed. Then Summer started and it was almost impossible to keep him inside. So Papa and Ryan secured the fencing even better so he couldn't get out and he loves it. He loves hunting and killing and climbing the tree and chasing bugs and going under the deck and laying in the sun. And he uses the giant outside litter box! And he slept so much better and calmed down completely. 

I am so glad papa said "We don't get rid of animals. You get one and you keep it. It is family. He is family....

.....forever!