October 20, 2007

I had recently adopted a few siamese cats and Penny and I were a little worried about how they would adjust to the new addtion. Here, we see Thor looking at Joaquin. He is a bit jealous and was the center of attention before Joaquin arrived, so we are still dealing with him demanding attention. I am a bit behind on starting and updating this blog, but we now know that Thor has ringworm and we do not allow him near the boy or to lay on anything of Joaquin's. It is sad because Thor is a great cat and does not understand why he is being snubbed. I wash his nose and behind the ears every night because that is where he is having the outbreak. If any of us gets ringworm, we are going to have to get rid of Thor, so I hope it clears up before we have any problems. He is a great cat and I would love to keep him.

Penny adjusted quickly to her role as a mom. Every sound that would come out of his mouth would make Penny jump to action. I felt a little ignored, but I too am adjusting to my role as a father. I still find it hard to believe how small he is. When we left the hospital, Joaquin had lost almost a pound. Between his weight loss and the potential for him to have jaundice, the nurses really had Penny on edge.

We took Joaquin to his first doctor's appointment on Friday, October 19th, 2 days after we took him home from the hospital. We were both excited to go to see how we were doing in our first few days as parents and to see if we could get him to put some of the weight he lost back on. When we left the hospital, Joaquin weighed about 6 lbs 8oz, and when we got to the doctor at 8 AM on Friday he had put all the weight he had lost back on. We were relieved and now there was no worry about jaundice. The nurses really liked to throw these types of words out there and wouldn't educate you about it, so we would get on the laptop and do our own research. It was nice they had wireless internet because they were not very good sources of information, just fear!

In his first few days at home, we saw some really funny faces that Joaquin would make. Here is a series of pictures that we found to be hilarious!


Penny and I have found parenting to be pretty exhausting. We try to catch naps whenever possible and we enjoy taking them with Joaquin.