Our new addition to the family...

Well, as you can see by the new title of your blog. We have a new cat. His name is Archie and I got him from my Aunt Patti here in Las Vegas. She's a big cat nut like I am.....except she has 10 at home and 2 at her office. She rescued Archie after another cat (or possibly a dog) beat him up. He had a big open sore on his side. She gained his trust and took him to the Vet and got him all patched up, as well as had him neutered, tested for disease and got him all his shots. As you can imagine she couldn't keep him because her cat capacity was at it's maximum! She sent me a "impassioned plea" email asking me to take him. She knew I lost my sweet Miss Smoochi last year.

He's been at our house now for about 3 weeks. He's still a bit skittish and only comes out at night because of the boys. Ada isn't too thrilled with him ......she's sabotaging him by eating his food and using his box. She's slowly coming around though. Dwayne too has had a bit of a hard time adjusting to him. I'm certain eventually he will get used to him just like he did my other ones when we met. He complains about him sometimes, but then I hear him "talking" to Archie when he's on the computer (I often have a hard time knowing if it's him or Archie doing the meowing)so I know deep down he likes him.

Sadly, not long after Archie arrived I found out Ada has kidney disease. I'm hoping it isn't as bad or advanced as Smoochi's was. I'm going to start her on a herbal supplement soon that will hopefully help. I would be pretty devastated if I had to put her down any time soon. She's such a sweet girl.

Well, that's it for this weeks update. Calvin starts baseball in March and Dwayne is one of the assistant coaches so look for pictures of that soon. We're all very excited about it because this year he got a great head coach and the team is the Angels!!! Until next time....