i'm a little kitten

yeeeees (roll eyes), the bean does indeed think she is a little kitten. i have countered if she is instead a tiger cub or a teddy bear, but she unfailingly asserts her right to be "a little kitten".

i do find it amusing at times when she refers to herself in the third person/cat, as in "the little kitten still crying", "the little kitten is upset", "the little kitten is not feeling well"...etc. a couple of times she's also told me that, "i have pink whiskers!"

when dh or i asks how is the little kitten she invariably (if she is happy, playful) goes, "mee-ow!" and looks up smugly, just like a cat that's got the cream. she might then also try to lick our faces. most times these days it seems she's substituted kisses with licks anyway.

our feline visitor
anyhow, today we were again paid a visit by one of our neighbours' cats. (they sometimes drop by for a nosy wander round the house and a kindly scratch behind the ears.) naturally, this event delighted the bean no end.

she followed the cat wherever it moseyed and tried to converse with it, "cat just like ginger*. i show you." then she went off to get her toy to show this cat. later on, she told the cat, "that's big thomas**. see big thomas? come see." the cat, being a cat, was imperiously disdainful/dismissive of the bean's friendly overtures.

*ginger is one of the bean's stuffed toy cats.
** big thomas is actually a ride-along thomas the tank engine designed for toddlers. i had rented it this week from our local toy library.