I am happy to announce that Lassi and her kittens are doing well! We're no longer worried about Lassi's health and all the kittens are gaining weight and developing on target. Of course, I must apologize - we were so wrapped up in worrying about Lassi that I failed to post about kitten development during their first week and a half. A quick Google search provides many websites about kitten development, but I like The Kitten Lady's Determining A Kitten's Age, Ally Cat Allies's How Old Is That Kitten? Kitten Progression: At-a-Glance, and PetMD's Kitten Development: Understanding a Kitten's Major Growth Milestones.

The kittens are now eleven days old. Here's what we've missed:

- They received colostrum from their first milk to build up their immune systems!

- Their umbilical cords fell off!

- Their ears started to unfold!

- Their eyes opened!

- They doubled in size! 

Of course, all the kittens are developing at different speeds. We saw this most dramatically with the opening of the eyes. Take, for instance, the following two pictures:

Both of these pictures were taken Saturday morning when they were a few hours shy of a week old. Iggy, on the left, hasn't yet figured out the whole wide-eyed thing. Inness, on the right, totally has. Both of them had definitely figured out the mid-air squirm, though!

I promise I'll manage the weekly development update from now on! Until then, I leave you with a line of kittens. (They were in even more of a line when I first saw them, but Ira and Iggy moved in the amount of time it took to grab my phone and snap the picture!)