Wow - congratulations. Somehow I figured that all your kids were lap cats. Hopefully she'll continue to grace your lap with her presence, now that she gave it a try.

My son's twin girls are 6 or 7 years old, and only in the past 6 months or so, has one of them tolerated me petting her. She won't get on my lap, but I can sit down next to her, and she's okay that way. The other one - pffftttt!!! She's such a brat that I think she doesn't even like herself. I can get a couple of head pats in, then she starts with the tail swish, the low growl, and then off she goes. She loves my DIL and no one else.

You'd think she might warm up to me, since I'm the one that feeds them most of the time, since they eat before anyone else gets home from work. Nope - no thanks from her at all!