Good news and bad news.
Good news: the kittens are now one month old and are quickly on their way to being weaned!
Bad news: we had to change all their names except for one.

This is Mink, originally Licorice. A couple days ago, I realized his undercoat, that peeks out fairly well from the confines of his black upper coat, is gray and smokey. I tried naming him Smoke Ring because of this (and also for the gray rings around his ears) but then Mom suggested Mink instead and immediately it stuck. He even has slight rings around his tail! His hair is 3rd longest. Rather adventurous but still cautious around me.


The following is Star, before Figaroo. Turns out he is a she, I accidentally mixed up the names for the two kittens Panther and Star and thus instead of changing names, I just left her with the title of night's lamp. Very befitting for the white star that stands out on her chest. She has the shortest hair for her siblings and is without stripes like her brothers Apple and Mink. Her attitude is adventurous but it takes a long time before she approaches you let alone allow you to pick her up, you have to have fast hands. See here with her scared eyes, the only one startled by my camera.

Next is Panther, orignally considered female, his name is the only one that hasn't changed becuase it has stuck to him like everything else. He is both the longest haired and the most friendly. He crawled right up to you and into your lap. However, as Mom and I discovered today, don't touch him while he's eating, he complains heavily though he has yet to bite, just whines. And what's funny is that he is the only one to do so. I love him.

And last but never least is my all time favorite cute pie, Apple. Since day one he's kept the same name and as far as I can control, he will always have that name. He is the only tabby, only gray, and only one that both heeds me greatly and approaches me the most next to Panther. I pray he gets the best family. I love him the most as selfish as it might seem.


Apple was the only kitten we could get to try the milk, but like his mother, he seemed to love it!




The kittens did have kind of a struggle with the cat food but here Mink is doing his best to chew it up.


My Babies!!!!!!
Sisters, you may all have your children to blog about and show off and so for the time being I have my children to blog about and show off. (However, I suppose I feel the most like my sister Stephanie: 3 boys and 1 girl.) Hehe <3

AS the end of the 2008-2009 school year approaches, so does the last art show. And for this one the stakes are raised. At the end of the year, seniors students show off their personal talents and show case their artwork on boards decorated by themselves without the assistance of the instructor.

Ask Mom and Dad and they will tell you this had been a very traumatic and interesting experience. First when Mom and I transported the boards back to our house for cleaning and painting. Then on the first day of painting when my friend, Casey, (the other side of my board, we shared) and she accidentally locked her keys and phone in her car, thus having to call her mom to come from her work in Gilbert to fetch my friend's second set of keys at her home. Followed by yesterday when Dad, Casey, and I transported the board back to school. And finishing up with today's after school adventure of setting up the boards in the library and posting the masterpieces over the decorative wood panels.

I'm just glad they are almost completely done.

Casey's theme is magic based off her class portfolio of "Myths and Legends." Her original plan was to have climbing vines on an Italian wall. Unfortunately on the account of time and resources, she sacrificed for my petty swirl vines and metallic fireflies. She said she loved how it came out anyway and I think the boards very much mirrored her carefree style and energetic pictures.


And then there is my work. Sorry, I'm not posed to show you my face in this shot, but you win some and lose some; just be glad I was in front of the camera for once. My theme for my boards is "From art is born Magic." Thus I painted mine simple white (originally a more white-darkening-to-teal, but things never work out 100%) with metalic spray paint swirls. The finished desgin was lovely and I was indeed sad to cover it up, still I needed to put my work somewhere. I had Mom take some paper to school and cut me out some letters saying "LARA STEWART Candidate for Artist of the Year!" and then had the words curve around the board along the swirls (see the last photo). Hopefully everything will turn out wonderful.



I incourage anyone who may want to come to do so:

Art Show Parent Night
Media Center (Library)
6 - 8 pm
Wednesday, May 6

(Especailly my sisters, they have a lot of their children in this show.)