Dr Atticus

I got the loveliest email from daycare this week. A few photos and a story about Atti taking over the hospital corner for a morning, and telling one of the carers that she was very very ill, and he needed to look after her. Apparently her heart was broken (Oh oh oh!) by a monster.

He had her lie down and he covered her with blankets and gave her medicine, but he also told her that she needed all her friends to make her feel better so he rounded up the kids to come and visit her to feel better in the hospital.

I was all

But I also figured we could build on this a little, and took him with me when I had to have a blood test this morning. He was very interested in the blood (he seemed to be expecting it to be green apparently) and he was very concerned that I was ok afterwards, which was nice.

xx

Atti and the cats

I had many pets growing up. I'm not sure why we were that family that had lots of pets, not just cats and dogs, but rabbits and guinea pigs and mice and various birds. I have generally had a cat as an adult, one that I had for over 15 years and then I got our current cat. She looks just like my old one but acts nothing like him, and I have never really bonded with her. But she is fine, and very tolerant of small children poking at her.

 Then recently we (accidentally) rescued two week old kittens and hand reared them. They are now fat glorious kittens, who are massively social and funny and who Atti can play with and carry about and we absolutely adore them. So much for finding homes for them.... I really didn't think that through.

But it has been fantastic to watch Atti and the kittens get used to each other. For weeks he wasn't allowed to pick them up or do anything with them - it was hard to feed them so he couldn't really help with that, or toileting or much else. But once they got old enough it has been brilliant. They join in with his play (I am amazed at the variety of kids toys the cats will play with), they are mostly fine with him carrying them about, they follow him around. It is really beautiful, and he says he is their brother.