Here is our "OH, so sweet!!" lilac girl, "Princess". She is after a lilac girl that has always been very dear to us, "Apelia's Everlasting Love", but after trying everything to make peace here, we had to place her in a different home (together with Avalon - at my cousin's home). We were NOT planning on keeping anything in Love's last litter here, but Princess just charmed herself into our hearts! There was no way she was going anywhere, she just became impossible to part with. She is in no way the best Birman type, and a very feminine girl. One thing she DOES have is WONDERFUL eye color!! We have to come to love this girl so much, and she stayed because, really, because of her inner values - not because it was the wisest choice for our breeding plans. Sometimes, that just happens, and it sure did with Princess!! She is a very precious girl, that we are very happy we have kept - even if she's not the best typed Birman. That's NOT all that counts - she is wonderful INSIDE, and THAT'S what really counts!!

Princess is like no other Birman we've ever had. She will lay in any position she has to to be as CLOSE to us as she can. If she could crawl under our skin - I think she would - just to be CLOSE!! We have lovely tempered Birmans in general, but Princess just is on a different level - though she has competition with Sunshine!! She is SO LOVING, and she has a way of looking at us so that it's like she's trying to tell us that she wouldn't want to be anywhere else than RIGHT THERE with us!

Princess has a funny habit - we call her our lilac masked puppy, because she finds things to bring to us, and she waits for us to throw "whatever" she has brought, so she can go and get it - and bring it back in her mouth (or hanging after her from her mouth if it's long). Then she waits for us to throw it again. Sometimes it gets to be too much, because she brings things back SO FAST. But she's always ready to take a pause and have a cuddle, and then she purrs up a storm!

Princess has gotten more chuncky (though she'll never be large). Her body seems to a little more round, and it will be very interesting to see if she develops even more after having kittens. As of yet, Princess has had no kittens....but we are hoping that she will sometime this year (2007)!!