Christmas Kittens

In my humble, unbiased, maternal, unprejudiced opinion, nothing in this world is more adorable than my children. ;-) Then we arrived at my parent's house last week. And that's when I laid my eyes upon their 2 six week-old kittens that my dad got for my mom for Christmas. So now, in my humble....opinion there is pretty much nothing in this world that can top the cuteness of my children AND kittens together in the same picture. hehehe

The entire week we were at my parent's house the kids went bonkers for the kittens. They would not leave them alone. They played more with those cats than they did with their new toys. Eventually we had to establish "kitten play time" and "kitten sleep time" so that those poor felines could have a break from the kids!!

Bless their hearts. The kids tried so hard to play nice with them, but you know how toddlers are. Their interpretation of "gentle" falls somewhere inbetween abrasive and lethal force. ;-)
At one point I caught Jayden carrying the orange kitten by its tail!! By the end of the week each kid had a couple claw marks on their hands or face.

All these pictures were taken on Christmas Eve. We'd just returned from a church service at my mom's church, hence the reason the kids are all dressed up. Something I love about protestant churches is their "midnight mass" candlelight Christmas Eve services. Traditionally they are held at midnight; we went at 4 p.m. ;-) We listened to a beautiful message and sang carols by candlelight.

This poor, poor kitten!! Can't you just read the expression on his face?! Wake me when this is over!! Help me!!!

Jaclyn found a jingle bell on a string and they were watching

the orange kitten jump and play with it.