Maybelline was meowing her head off this morning while the kittens fed.  Roughly translated she was saying, “Help! I’m being attacked by little milk vampires and they are draining my precious bodily fluids!”

Maybelline has a flair for the dramatic.

Here are Maybelline’s kittens, eyes open and looking like the little milk balloons they are.  It took a few pictures to get all of their faces because, hey, try getting kittens to look in the same direction at the same time.  It should be an Olympic event. Kitten herding!

Maybelline gave birth to four lovely kittens on Sunday afternoon.  Just like their mother they are noisy little things, squeaking when she isn’t in the nest or making loud slurpy nursing noises when she is.

This is a final litter for Maybelline and Noreaster before they retire from active duty, so we will be sure to have some fun temporary names for the kittens around that theme.  The wheels in our brains are turning! Finale, Omega, Finito… we’re thinking.

All kittens in this litter have been reserved!

Look at that face!

As predicted there was a 5th kitten. Unfortunately it was underweight and stillborn. Even though we know that it is normal for this to happen on occasion it still makes us sad.