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The kitties are pretty good. Whisper got a off again on again limp that seems to have resolved. We noticed it because Whisper would growl and his when they were fighting. Normally they are silent. Other than Whisper's insanity for hair and both their kitten tendency to explore everything, they're pretty darn good cats.

They continue to sleep on the bed with us and are excited when we get up to use the bathroom, but are mostly quite at night. They are sweet and sometimes quite affectionate. They've gotten so big.

Whisper has a favorite toy that she'll growl if she's holding it and Echo comes near.

I can't believe we've only known them for 2 months. Getting cats is always a bit of a luck of the draw for a ~18 year commitment. So far we've been very lucky with them.

The kitties continue to heal. The onesies are working but they really hate them, so we try to give them some supervised time without them. Sadly when they both have them off they tend to wrestle, so we were trying to distract them with the feather. Echo has developed a little bit of lump which is likely caused by too much exercise, so we'll have to tone that down. We are all looking forward to them being healed so they can be free of them. We are super glad we have something that is working. however.

My mom, a friend, and I went camping at Lake Dennison Resort as a test run. It went pretty well. Got some swimming in, had fairly good weather, and learned a few things.

I messed up my back today during my workout. My suspicion is it is actually the exhaustion from last week, mixed with physical challenges of camping and sleeping on a cot, mixed with bad ergonomics while doing jump rope crossovers.

I don't remember the last time my back was in this much pain, though I know it has been since this is basically just the damage I did all those years ago. I can at least sit and lie down, but shifting between positions is rough. Here's hoping it will be better tomorrow.

Today was the kitten's day to be spayed.The foster network had me drop them off in Medford at 6am. Then they were driven to North Groton. Whisper was operated on by a student. They were also chipped and given their second round of vaccines. I picked them up about 6:30pm. Now they are home, hating their cones. Keeping them from jumping and playing will be impossible with their kitten energy but we bought some pop up dog pens so at least we can keep them from fighting and getting into trouble tonight while we sleep.

We had just gotten into a good routine where they could be trusted at night and now we're going to have to have a week of them with their cones.

I'm also going away this weekend, so I'm super worried about them. One less set of eyes to be on the look out for any trouble with the wound or their cone collars, which are fairly tight right now because they kept slipping them.

We've had the kittens a week and a little now. They've been great. They've both been purring up a storm. Whisper is very mewful when waking up from a nap. We're not sure what she's trying to say. Last night was the first night we didn't lock them up, and it went well. They're still learning about surfaces we don't want them on and occasionally playing with things we don't want them to, but in general they seem to be learning well and quickly.

They are so cute and love being around us. Whisper will often sleep in my lap and Echo will sleep at my feet. I did get her to sleep in my lap until she thought the keyboard was scary.

Whisper still doesn't know her name, but she does know the sound of a plate, which is good enough. They haven't quite learned "out" (get out of there) yet, but it's in progress.

I love how different they are. Whisper barrels forward, but doesn't seem to have much awareness. Her intelligence is yet to be determined. Echo is much more thoughtful and aware, though she can be assertive with Whisper if she needs to be. Whisper is full of energy and bounciness and needs to be shown the food sometimes. Echo is still a good hunter and can move quickly.

I've been fishing out the old toys that Kaylee was too old to play with and the biggest hit has been the blue folding cubes.

Using the litter is a group activity.

The foster company wants us to bring them to get spayed and chipped in a few weeks, but they have to meet 3 or maybe even 3.5lbs. Neither one is close, so that might be an issue.