Kee Kee

It is a well-known fact that Virginia loves pets of all kinds, especially kitty kitties. Basically as soon as she could learn to walk, she would treat walks down the street as her opportunity to scout for neighborhood kitties. She quickly became familiar with the kitty hotspots and now regularly insists that we visit them. (It happens that one such hotspot is the backyard of our next door neighbor, home of an crotchety old tabby cat named Touche. Virginia would trespass every day to visit him if she could.)

A while ago, when my cousin Katie Jane returned from time abroad in South Africa, she returned with a little stuffed leopard for Virginia. Over the last four or five months, it has become an essential item in the Harvey house. It is just her size and perfect for carrying around. Virginia takes it pretty much everywhere she goes. She also sleeps with it in her crib and feeds it Goldfish crackers. It is the closest we have to a family pet.