Spit Happens

Well, we can no longer say that Mercer doesn't really spit up. (He had only done it 4 times in the first month and a half of his life.) But - Sunday - he spit up twice with his dad... and today - he spit up twice with me. Oh well. A good thing comes to an end. People we know ALWAYS have extra outfits for their babies... lots of burp cloths... maybe even an extra shirt for themselves. We were hoping that we wouldn't have to pack & lug all of this extra stuff around - but I guess we are not immune.

Kitty (the multi-colored cat shown in the March 20th blog entry) has taken a really bad turn over the weekend. Last week she had a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) and I mopped the floors multiple times b/c of it. Sunday afternoon - she started having a hard time walking and became extremely lethargic. She suddenly lost a lot of weight too -- maybe because she was not eating, but most likely because she had lost so much fluid. I was up with her much of the night giving her pedialyte (the stuff for kids to replenish electrolytes) and water. I would feed it to her in a dropper so that she could drink a sip or two of something every hour or so... keeping her hydrated 'til this morning. I took her to the vet and they think she has kidney failure and are keeping her for a few days to flush the kidneys / see if it helps. If she takes well to the flush -- we will be required to give her weekly shots of fluid under her skin to maintain a somewhat better life than what she has now. If she doesn't take to the flush, well... we'll have to talk about that later.

Kitty is 14 years old. Let's hope for the best.

I worked a little on the nursery today. Todd picked up the dresser (and put the changing pad on top so it's now a changing table) over the weekend. He also picked up the crib which converts later to a full-sized bed; both pieces of furniture will grow with Mercer.

In the meantime, we have to completely re-arrange the stuff that's in there now & put a lot of things away. We did not have time to clean out all of the non-baby stuff from that room; it's still a mix of objects in there. We still need to caulk the crown moulding, do a little bit of work at the ceiling (this may wait!), and I want to paint the walls some with bubbles and fish to match the bedding and curtains. Once the room looks decent, we'll post some pics to the blog of that. Hope the paint job doesn't look cheesy!

Here's a pic of Mercer with his cowaffe (looks sort of like a giraffe that needs to be milked (with udders on the front!) It's really an elongated cow -- so Todd calls it cowaffe.) Mercer likes it & stares at it / bats at it a little bit.

He's starting to talk to things: the cowaffe, the ceiling fans, his mobile. He says a few vowels at this point -- but that's about it. Sometimes, it sounds like he says "Hi" too.