A 3 Year Old's Understanding Of Death

When Isabella woke up from her nap, I told her the news about Caspian. She cried, "Noooooo!" and, with tears in her eyes, "That means we won't ever see Caspian again just like Gambit." (Gambit, our other cat, died 11 months ago. And because of this, it appears that Bella has a better understanding of death than I thought she would.)

Gabby & Caspian

Gabby is crying about Caspian, naturally. She just told me, "Caspian has always been my pretend prince."

Caspian Died

Robert just called from the vet's, and Caspian had to be put to sleep. He had liver failure and was dying anyway.

I'm in tears.

Our Cat Caspian Is Sick

Our almost-eight-year-old cat, my favorite pet out of all the pets I've ever owned, is very sick. We had an appointment for him to be seen tomorrow, but he was so sick that I was worried he wouldn't make it until tomorrow. I convinced the vet to squeeze him in to be seen today. The news is not good. My husband has now had to take him to their vet hospital branch for tests. If he has what the doctor suspects, it has a 100% mortality rate and I will lose my beloved cat.

I think I'm going to lose my cat, but I am still holding out hope that the tests will find that something else, something treatable, is wrong with him.

A picture of my cat, Caspian:

Family Portraits 2009

Portraits of the family and of just the children Januarey 31st, 2009

Sisters Portraits 2009

The photographer took some sister photos. Some were of all of the girls together, and some were of two at a time.

January 31st, 2009

Cameron Portraits 2009

Cameron January 31st, 2009

Connor Portraits 2009

Connor January 31st, 2009

Isabella Portraits 2009

Isabella January 31st, 2009

Gabriella Portraits 2009

Gabriella January 31st, 2009

Kayla Portraits 2009

Kayla January 31st, 2009

Angelica Portraits 2009

Angelica January 31st, 2009

Victoria's Portraits 2009

We went to have family portraits taken on Saturday the 31st of January. Normally, we do our own photography for our portraits, but we don't have the space at home anymore and it was less hassle to let someone else do it this time.

I am posting each child's portraits in separate posts, because there are so many photos.

Here are Victoria's portraits.

Robert & Rebecca Portraits

Robert & Rebecca January 31st, 2009

Baby Smiles

Cameron smiles a lot for us now. I think he's worked out that smiling garners him more attention.

Isabella & Snuggles

Isabella said she was drawing, "Snuggles."

I asked, " You're drawing snuggles?"

She answered, " Yes, BIG ones!"

Later, she drew a "snowman and a girlfriend for him." (We had a snow day.)

Gabby also drew snowmen.

I'm still not sure what snuggles were supposed to look like.