Christmas Eve-Our 5th Gotchaversary!!!

Hello, Busby here. Today is the fifth anniversary of our Gotcha Day! My brother Raymond and I came to our forever home on Christmas Eve, 2004 when we were two months old. (our birthday is Oct 13, 2004) Our Moms met us when we were just ten days old. They knew right away that they would be adopting Raymond because they LOVE black cats, but it took awhile to decide which other kitten in our litter they would adopt. (I'm glad they picked ME!) They got to name all of us kittens (just three of us in the litter), and spent time with us everyday until they took us home. We were fostered just three doors down from where we live now by our "Auntie" Stephanie. She was fostering for Pacific Siamese Rescue.

We thought a little trip down memory lane would be fun. Of course, you can click on any of these photos to bigify them. We are kind of little!

Here we are with our Mom, Nell.

From left to right, Raymond, Busby, Leo and Nell.

We are about one month old in most of these photos.

Here's Busby on the left, then Leo, Nell and Raymond.

All these photos were taken at our Foster Mom's house.

We had our own room there!

We love you Stephanie!

Our Mom Nell was a great Mom. We were VERY hungry boys!

Raymond got his name right away, but Leo and I took awhile to name.

So in this photo, we are just Nell and the Nelltones.

Raymond was the runt of the litter, and always

got pushed to the farthest end of the milk bar.

Here we are on our turbo scratcher. We used to play with it and

then collapse in a heap of sleepy kittens! Can you tell who's who?


Here's Raymond with our Mom. He still had his blue eyes in this photo.

And here is our Mom watching over Raymond and I.

Our Mom Nell and our brother Leo were also both adopted and

have wonderful homes here in California.

We hope all of our friends out there in the interwebs have a

wonderful Christmas Eve, filled with love and laughter.

ps-these photos were taken by Roger Shellard,

who helped our foster Mom raise us.
Thanks Roger!