WE HAVE KITTENS!

bout time!!  last night she seemed to be nesting, and was trying to shove herself into corners.  I put bedding down on one, and blocked off the other, and put the box we wanted her to have her kittens in what we thought was a quiet protected corner.  She seemed to want attention, but as I was patting her she turned on me and bit me rather hard (but not breaking skin) so I left so as not to over stimulate her.  I checked on her several hours later, and no change, so I figured it was another false alarm.

As I was investigating the mystery of the morning, i decided to check on her, and she didn't come right out.  I went into the kitten room to see her in the box wrapped around her kittens protectively.

nothing to see here

Since she bit me yesterday, I was a little cautious about the whole thing.  I opened up a can of food and she left her brood to eat, but they started mewing, and she immediately turned around and went back to them.  I stuck her in the carrier so I could examine them and make sure everything was ok and check genders.  Looks like I have five healthy kittens (not quite a whole basketball team, but definitely a good game) One all black male, one black and white male, one black female, one tabby female, and one tri color tabby (like mom) female.  I'm 90% sure of genders, so there is a small chance this might change.  Here are a few more photos and a video. Click to enlarge them.