Latest cat update

I wanted to give a new cat update. Lacy Is the gray and white one. She comes out almost every day and sleeps on the kitty bed which is on the kitty table so she can see out the windows. There is also a ledge in our bedroom window and she spends a lot of time on. We used to laugh about Macy, saying she was the neighborhood watch cat. Lacy seems to have a similar interest in what goes on. She no longer runs away from Atlas and hisses and bats at him if he gets too close. Neither Atlas or Lacy seem to be afraid of each other. She just doesn't like to occupy the same space as him. Atlas seemed to take in stride. One night my wife put Lacy between my knees and she stayed there for about 5 minutes. And she got down and surprisingly jumped back up on my feet and went up to my legs and laid down again. Baby steps.
Slim is almost all gray and is a fairly long cat. He has a tiny bit of white on the stomach but other than that he is a beautiful gray color. I've seen more of him this week than all the rest of his time here combined. Comes out and walks around the living room and checks out the entry room. He will lay right in the crossroad between the entry and the hall going back to our bedrooms. If Atlas comes over to him he pounds Atlas his nose or just ignores Atlas entirely. He seems a little restless and never stays in one spot very long.
My wife has found that Lacy likes to fight the shoelace on the end of the stick Macy used to. She is quite ferocious and the strings better watch out! One night slim came out and watched for a while and when he tried to attack the string Lacy pounded on his head and he quit. Slim will chase the laser pointer all over the place and Lacy totally ignores it. It's pretty funny to see my wife with the kitty string toy in one hand and the laser pointer in the other.
I keep hoping one of the cats will bond with me enough to jump up on my lap or sleep on top of me. So far that hasn't happened yet. Maybe it will. Tom will be home for Christmas and will take Atlas hunting in western Iowa so Atlas will be gone for a few days. We'll see how the cats act during that time.