This is Ash, probably on the day we brought him home.  As you can see, he wasn't too big.  Remember, he was pretty sick.  He had an eye-infection and either parasites or a bacterial gut problem (maybe both).

This is from today.  The picture's kinda dark.  But I like the way it highlights the pale rings around his eyes.  He's now up to about 4 1/2 lbs.  Incidentally, I followed him around for something like a half-hour to get a picture showing his face.  Not for nothin' is one of nicknames "Truckin'."  The other picture I considered using shows him lurking in the den's built-in shelves, peering around the corner hoping to see an unsuspecting Ember.  (Her nickname should be something like "Patient, long-suffering, only-occasionally-annoyed, can-we-please-keep-him-out-of-my-dish?"  Ash is also known as "Scamp," and "Spud."  (Those of you who've read The Dark Knight Returns, will understand that he usually protests that he's not a Spud, he's a Slicer-Dicer, man.)  And sometimes, with apologies to the Author of The Bige Pic, he's "Spudster" . . . . though no "Gordo" has yet appeared.  :-)