5 weeks plus one

 We've been holding out a little. There is a tiny void kitten who has taken up residence for a couple of weeks in the playpen in the living room. 

Meet Phoenix. She's just here to get big enough for surgery. She was very hissy for about 2 days and now she is all about people. And Buttons...

Buttons discovered she can get in and out of the playpen. The goal was to leave the door open just enough for Phoenix. Turns out that's just enough for Buttons as well.

Ambrosia and the salad kittens are doing great. We haven't seen the kittens eating yet though they have sniffed everything. They are having fun running around and jumping on each other though. 

One month old

 Time flies. They now have small litter boxes that they are using. No access to the big ones yet to avoid them eating the clumping litter (it's a thing - like kids everything goes in their mouths until they learn better). Earlier in the week the room was moved around to look like this:

On Sunday 2 kittens managed to escape that so it was rearranged again:

Ambrosia isn't really sure how she feels about loose kittens but the crate is still their safe space and they climb back in there. 

Despite looking mildly grumpy for pictures, they are very sweet and all start chirping when mom goes in with them. Next step weaning but Ambrosia will help them with that. They've sniffed canned food but weren't really interested. 

Really??

 Tried to get individual pictures of the kittens since they are now 3 weeks old. Not a lot of cooperation. 

Waldorf (male)

Cobb (male)

Caesar (male)

Caprese (female)

Panzanella (male)

No one has escaped the crate yet but they are probably pretty close. Mom needs to sweep up in there since Ambrosia kicks litter all over and also get some non clumping litter for the kittens to use at first.

Mom was gone for a couple of days and apparently Waldorf forgot who she was:

And also just a shot of Buttons marching down the hall: