New Arrival

This post marks two new beginnings - the start of my blog and a new addition to our family. We adopted a kitten!

Because my parents own a veterinary hospital, we are always coming across kittens in need of a home. A pregnant cat wondered into their technician's yard and had five kittens in her window well. Last night we took a little black and white tuxedo cat and he's seems to be right at home.

He loves Brandy and slept with her last night. He doesn't mind Ben's yelling or pounding and always comes back for more after getting his tale pulled or ear crunched. He likes to cuddle and nap with Chuck and purrs all the time.

We are having a hard time naming him, though. Here are some of the front runner choices. Let us know what you think.

Spaghetti Cat: The cat eating spaghetti that stole our hearts on "The Soup". If we go with Spaghetti Cat, we'd like to call him a good mafia nickname like Fat Tony or Rocco.



Curtis Dee: Curtis, Chuck's mom's husband, asked us to name Ben after him. Although, we opted to name Ben after my great-granddad, we'd still like to honor Curtis.



Harry Houdini: We lost the kitten for a couple of hours and turned the house upside down looking for him. He had crawled under the dishwasher. When the door is open there is a two-inch space between the dishwasher and cabinets, he squeezed in and was catting around under the cabinets. We think we'll call him Harry...maybe spell it Hairy.



Earl J. Hickey: Because this kitten has a sweet mustache, we thought about naming him after someone else with a sweet stache - Earl Hickey. Earl found karma through Carson Daily and lives by the mantra "Do good things and good things happen." He also has a pretty incredible mustache that drives women crazy.



Please tell us what we should name our kitten. It's sad calling him "kitten" all the time. Here are some other pictures too.