milestone #2

Wow, what a day it has been. All babies are fussier than normal, had me worried until a few mins ago when I was doing my nightly body check to discover that...they.....have....teeth!! YAY. Arthur has his top fronts as well does Kate. Muffy's are there and while I can feel them there is no distinct sharpness, I suspect by tomorrow she will also be sporting her first teeth. The teeth scare me though...the last milestone I lost a babe in that same 24hrs....They are all well and doing very well, so I don't expect that to happen this time, but I am still nervous.

As I said all bubs have been fussy today...That is probably my fault. I tried to do something that it almost impossible. When a kitten is born, they often prefer one of moms nipples over any other, they claim rights to that nipple and most of the time its hard to convince them to find another to allow that "good" nipple a rest. The same thing with bottle nipples. The nipple they have been using for over a week now, is very worn and the hole is huge, nipple is stretched in general. So I got the brilliant idea of giving them a new one. Well they won't take another, its the ratty one or nothing and I am not in a position to allow them to get hungry enough to "force" them into taking the new one. If you consider that each kitten uses the nipple at least 8x a day and there are 3 of them, then multiply that by the 8 days I have been nursing them, well thats a lot of wear on a small nipple. I have tried putting them in my bra, which is where each kitten spends a good chunk of their day. I was hoping it would smell like me so there would be no issue, WRONG, i tried giving them a bigger nipple in general, WRONG. I ran out of ideas and decided to give them back the ratty one...RIGHT, probably the only right thing I have done all day if you ask them lol.


I am also pretty convinced that they can hear pretty well now, b/c heaven forbid I should talk, they wake up instantly and cry. If I am even near their box, they cry, if I put my hand in the box, they jump. No kidding, they really do jump at my hand. It's crazy crazy.

I had a scary experience yesterday. The babies are all to big for the "file box" so I set up a big TV box and moved them in. but when I went to move the heating pad and plug it into the surge protector that I use for my stereo and satellite, I heard a huge pop and sparks came flying. Freaked me out. Can you guess how angry and sad I was when I realized that my satellite and stereo were now not working?? I am thinking my parrot Echo (who has that name for a reason lol) learned some new words which I hope and pray he decides to try out when nobody is home or at least nobody important lol. Turns out the surge protector blew up, but it kept its word kept my electronics safe. If I had of had to miss, vampire diaries, grey's and private practice I would have been livid. I suppose I should have been happy to not have been killed but true to my nature I was more worried about my weekly shows than my own life, which if you knew me would be no shock (lol, like my pun?? lol)

anyway enough of my boring almost being killed crud, baby weights are:

Muffy - 213G, a small gain...only 13more grams to go until she doubles her birth weight

Kate - 215G a tiny gain but only 11 more grams until she doubles her birth weight


Arthur - 234G only 8G gain but only 18 more grams until he doubles his birth weight.

They started wrestling a bit today and it seems that Muffy is the instigator, which doesn't surprise me. It's really very cute to see them playing a bit, Muffy was trying to swat at Kate's tail as it swished back and forth. I filed their nails a bit tonight in hopes that they don't scratch as much.

Take care, next update tomorrow :)