Getting Acquainted (Week 1)

After we visited the vet and found out that only 2-3 are likely to survive, we decided not to name them and call them by color:

• Gray (101g)
• Black (97g)
  
• Tortie (85g He turns out not to be tortoiseshell after all, but the name sticks.)
• Orange 1 (117g)
• Orange 2 (122g) Called Spot after the identifying Sharpie mark on his head from the vet.)
• Tan (99g)

We are so sleep deprived. At school, I keep losing my train of thought. We are feeding them every 3 hours, and it takes almost an hour to pee and feed them all, which means that we only sleep for 2 hours at a time. They eat so little that we carefully mark the bottle level with a Sharpie and measure the change in volume in mm with a ruler. Otherwise we can't tell if they've eaten enough.

Gray drinks at 6 days old


I swear I am never having children! They are super cute, but I don't know how long we can keep this up.

It's lovely when they are asleep


We are hallucinating kittens in our sleep. I turned on the pot to boil water and fell back asleep, nearly burning the house down. The crazy thing is that I must have heard it in my sleep and turned it off without waking up. We have a smoke detector now. :) I have my big test this coming Saturday and I am not studying nearly enough. Had I known how exhausting it would be, I don't know if we would have signed up for the job.

See the Spot!


Tortie is showing his face and Black is at the bottom of the pile


On the very first day, our friends Bobby and Sarah came to visit them. The next day Eve and Mike stopped by. They were popular right from the beginning. Except for Kitty. He remains cautious and quite annoyed at their crying. When we are peeing and pooping them, they tend to cry loudly, which distresses Kitty who jumps up on the counter and cries too. In the midst of this insane cacophony, we are half asleep, wishing we were wholly asleep.

Kitty observes his nemeses


This video was taken on Tuesday night, 5 days old.



They don't move around much. They are blind and deaf. And yet they are adorable. Go figure.
Evidence of cuteness


We are 6 for 6. No mortality yet. Which is good- I'm too tired for death.