7oz or not - Day 15

Let's go short today, I'm exhausted. Phoenix hit 7oz today, though admittedly on this last weigh in, he dropped 3g and is under 7oz again. Not worried, I think the scale can be finicky and overall he's gained since yesterday. All in all, Phoenix is doing well.

Growing Kitten

Another day is down and not much has changed. Right down to bad-Mom forgetting to turn on the power strip again. This time I was frazzled because I was moving him while I was running late to a meeting for work, so it completely slipped my mind to check that the heat source was on. On the bright side, since I'm paranoid, I will regularly touch the blanket to make sure that the heat source is on, which is how I realized. Of course today, that came back to bite me. I reached my hand onto the blanket to test the temperature and instead came back with poop on my hand. I deserved it - if you've been reading the blog, poop is a regular occurrence. Why I would stick my hand under a stuffed cow to test the blanket temperature? Beats me.

But still poop and all, there are many moments of smiles with this little guy. How can this not make you happy? I mean... just look at that face.

And then we had another incident where one of our power outlets was loose and the heating pad ended up shutting off without me knowing. At least I know which outlet to avoid moving forward.

I had a bit of a poop scare. Some of it came tinged red a bit. I'll spare you the photo. Sent Linda the photos instead (yes, I texted someone poop photos) and confirmed that that was fine; not a sign of blood in the stool.

We also needed to buy some more KMR, but the store seemed to be experiencing a shortage. So we ended up with just one smaller can of powder. We'll need to go buy more soon, but we'll be good for a number of days.

So all in all, Phoenix is doing well! As for me? Well, I'm exhausted, but oddly enough it wasn't Phoenix keeping me up last night. I just had a harder time falling back asleep, which doesn't fit in well when you have to wake up 3 times in a night. Here's to hoping I sleep just as well as Phoenix was in this video (was he dreaming of food? You decide!)

And for the fun of it, I'll close out with another edition of "Where's Phoenix?", though I do think the first one was harder!

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