Day 12/23/31/67 Eyes are Opening

Mom has been trying to determine the sex of the kittens.  She said it's harder than it sounds because they're so little and they are 'built' differently than dogs.  I bet if she sniffed their butts she could figure it out.  That's what I do and it works pretty good for me!

She's been back and forth a couple of times but has figured out that the tabbies are female and the black ones are male. Their names, from top to bottom, are Kenna, Kiefer, Seamus and Kieran.  Mom says she knows Seamus is a boy's name but she has been calling this one Seamus since right after she was born.  Maybe we'll change it to Shea.









Monday afternoon Mom said that she noticed a couple of the kittens were starting to open their eyes.

This little kitten, Kenna, only had her right eye open.  She managed to get the other one open yesterday.

Seamus had both eyes open on Monday. 













Mom thought she saw Kieran's eyes open this morning but didn't have a chance to get a good look before she had to leave for work.

The kittens are doing lots of moving around.  They are crawling around more quickly and frequently get turned over on their backs.  This leads them to get confused and crawling in the wrong direction.  Then the crying starts and they are quite upset until they can make their way back to the rest of the group.

There's still lots of sleeping going on though.