Like Bringing Down a Skyscraper

We now own two cats. The first cat was a mutual decision. The second cat was a surprise to The Honey, a bit unwelcomed at first, as unasked for surprises often are, but now is part of the family.

KitKat and Twix. We love our candy bars.

KitKat is a beautiful Siamese, the sweetest cat in our house. She's very talkative (which is crazy cat lady speak for meows a lot), very snuggly and so very, very sweet. Twix, on the other hand, is very young. She can't sit still. She bounds around the house, her nails clicking on the wood parts. I've heard her hit her head on the metal part of our bed while running into our room. She can play with anything. Shiny crinkly things, balls with bells inside, dryer sheets, that spot on the floor. It's comical to watch her play with any of these objects, batting it around, jumping around it. We have so much fun watching her playing.

She was so little when we got her. Too old to be without her mom, but with the mom dead, someone had to take care of her and she was just too cute. Even now, more than a month after she came to the house, she is still so tiny, though her legs are really shooting out.

Last night, after we had gotten into bed, nice and cozy, we heard a loud crash. In the room. Only one culprit. We jump out of the bed. Our dresser is face down on the floor. We panic. We hope that Twix is not underneath it all. I'm pretty sure that's the most panicked I've even been. Luckily, she'd run free of the falling behemoth. Mike found her in the office, staring at our bedroom. Not just looking. Staring with deep concentration. It took her a while to come up to Mike. She didn't start crowding me in bed until much, much later that night. She's still very jumpy.

Once we realized that she was fine, we started laughing. How could that tiny, tiny kitten bring down our dresser. The Honey was incredulous. Twix is so small, he equated her taking down the dresser to the two of us knocking over a skyscraper. We laughed really hard because the imagery was funny and because we were really relieved that we hadn't lost our feline baby.