cats and kids and other family matter updates

Contrary to how we thought our three cats would react, all have them have taken very well to the new baby. Its obvious that they are still somewhat apprehensive of a mini-human (well, Vicky more than the others) but overall they love coming up to Myles and sniffing him and giving him those small head-butts which are a sign of affection coming from cats. Of course though, we never ignored the cats when we brought the baby home so as to let them know they are still loved, but i guess that we were concerned with them being somewhat jealous about a new life form in the house but that was simply not the case. Perhaps the fact that Hunter seems to have developed a decent rapport with the cats (especially Gabriel who sometimes sleeps with Hunter at night), that might have allayed their fears about mini-humans.

In any case, I'd like to say that I'm proud that my kitties have accepted into their home a new baby human as one of their own. Because yes, we are under the impression here that the cats run the house and they are simply gracious enough to allow us mere homosapiens to live with them. LOL.

Now my father in law's great danes are a different story completely.. but then again, one of them is affectionately referred to as "scooby dumb" which is an accurate description. They do okay around the baby, but their large size, clumsiness, and general oblviousness about their surroundings have caused trouble. At least Myles doesn't get too upset when they bark like crazy, which is quite loud.


Although unrelated to the rest of the post, Myles is now 33 days old and is growing like a damn weed... he nurses on Lanette until she's as dry as bone and yet still keeps eating like a little machine. We just pray that he keeps up this habit and stays healthy. We love ya little guy!

Also, in other news, we took Hunter to a behavioral specialist today so that we can start helping him to bring his behavior more in line with what his potential shows. Since he has ADHD, we know he struggles, but regardless we want to be effective parents and give him the most effective tools to deal with his condition while learning ourselves out to deal appropriately him from a discipline standpoint. Instead of just simply throwing medicine at him and hoping the problem goes away, we want to take the proactive approach, but if medicine continues to be an aid in his therapy and one of the bullet points in our plan to ensure his success, then so be it. We just want him to fulfill his life's potential - to do otherwise means we've failed as parents.