How many frogs does a girl have to kiss?

Or, in Evie's case, how many cats?  Our cat Jack seems to be the eternal tease for Evie.  He lets her crawl juuuuust close enough to get within an arms reach, and then he darts out of the room.  Evie thinks this game is great fun, chasing after him from room to room.  Jack is either terrified or disinterested.  He is still wondering why we ever brought this baby home.

Ellie wonders why Evie is sleeping in "her" bed

Before Evie was mobile, Jack tolerated her more.  A few times he'd let me set her next to him to snap a photo.  He certainly never walked up to her on his own though.  Meanwhile, before we gave up our other cat Ellie, she was completely obsessed with Evie (yes, there were times when we called Ellie Evie, and more embarrassingly, when we called Evie Ellie). Ellie was certain all of Evie's belongings were in fact intended for her.  She slept in Evie's co-sleeper next to our bed, seeming annoyed when Evie occupied the space.  She hopped in Evie's car seat for naps.  She even lounged in Evie's exersaucer.  The reason we had to give Ellie away was that she eventually started to get jealous of the fact we kept paying so much attention to Evie, and so little attention to her.

Jack tolerating Evie

Evie kissing a picture of a cat

Jack, on the other hand, has just kept a wide berth.  As a result, Evie seems to have become obsessed with him.  When reading Good Night Moon every night, Evie gets excited for the page "good night little kittens".  She slaps her hand against the page and shouts "Ja!!", then looks at me with joy at the fact that there is a cat in this book.  We have a few other books with pictures of cats in them as well.  Evie's newest trick has been to kiss the page with the picture of the cat.  "Ja!" she says, as she leans down to slobber all over the book.  I hope it's not foreshadowing of an eventual obsession with items or people who are "hard to get".  For right now though, it's pretty comical.  Maybe one day Jack will actually allow Evie to give him a kiss.  On second thought, I think it's safe to say that is unlikely.  Perhaps we can just hope one day he'll allow her to actually pet him.