Lily is coming along much the same. I was lying next to her on the bed this afternoon, for 10 minutes, with my hand on her tummy. and the movement from the babies inside was fascinating. You could distinguish between little legs poking her side. There was an awful lot of movement. Which obviously is good. I took some photos of Lily, yesterday, as she was in the kitten box. She was happy, as she had the whole place to herself. All 5 Siamese in the house, are currently awake, they are having a little energetic spurt before settling down for their long afternoon sleep. Lily is sat downstairs, in the hallway, watching them fly past her!

I am very excited that 2 of these babies are heading to join kittens that we had from our first litter. They are going to be going to two wonderful homes, and as a breeder, that makes it extra special.

I have also been writing daily extracts about life in our household on my blog, www.timrisiamese.blogspot.com/

It's hard to believe, that this time next week, we may well have lots of extra little lives in the house.

Yesterday, I made more changes to my bedroom, in preparation for the new arrivals, in about 10 days time. I have a little nervous feeling in my tummy at the moment, it is exciting, and scary at the same time.

I feel so strongly, that I must do everything in my power, to ensure Lily has a safe delivery, and the kittens make it into the world, safely, and healthy.

I am trying really hard, to make my room, a place, where Lil feels happy, and secure, and where she can have everything that she can possibly need.

On Friday night, I brought the kitten box into my room. ( see the photo with the 4 youngsters leaping about in it!) We used this last year, downstairs, but it really was too big. It has been downsized considerably, so it will now fit neatly in my room. I have put a cat bed in it at the moment, and as I type, Lily is asleep in there with her 2 daughters, Fluffy and Galadriel ( see the photos) Lil is eating well at the moment, and she is being loving and special as always.

We have just over 2 weeks to go before Lily delivers her kittens into the world. This will be her 3rd litter, so I am confident that she will be a good mum to her babies, as she always is. She has such a big tummy at the moment, that she must be carrying a good size litter again. So far she has produced 2 lots of 6 babies, and I would not be surprised if she is doing so again.

She is starting to slow right down. She wanders down stairs, to ask for food, and she cuddles the other cats. But when they are having one of their wild bursts of play, she tends to sit on the top of one of the scratching posts, and watches. She is so very much the 'main lady' in our house, and the others respect her for that. If they are racing up and down the stairs and over the landing, she likes to sit at the top of the stairs to watch them run by. And she is lovely and cuddly and purry. You just feel that you want to snuggle up to her all day, and kiss her tummy!

I have taken some photos today. The first 2 are of Lily on her own, 2 others are of her sleeping close by the others, on my bed, and the last one, I could not resist, was of her daughter, Lady G, from her very first litter 2 years ago.