Hello World.

[garnigal]

It's been far too long since I've posted. What's worse is that I haven't been reading either.

I can't really blame it on Gen - she's still an incredibly easy baby. So easy in fact that I've spent most of her first 4 months cleaning and reorganizing, with some time out for vacations. I'm recently back from a train trip to British Columbia with Gen and my parents. Derek is heading out to visit a friend for a week, and then we're both home together until the end of August when I head into Toronto with Gen for FanExpo (Nathan Fillion!)

The other time consuming event has been one of our cats. He's been peeing on the floor in multiple locations nearly every day for 2 months now. We've had him to the vet to see if there was a physical issue, we've wondered if it was jealousy of Gen, or a dominance struggle with one of the other cats...

Yesterday we took him in to get his teeth cleaned, and before they sedated him they did a blood test. Turns out he's diabetic. Between the teeth cleaning and being on a diabetic food, he hasn't peed on the floor since we got him home. Hopefully this holds.

Here's some pictures. The first three are from a photo shoot that we did when Gen was 2 months old. The photographer was the same as we had for our wedding. The last picture is AJ, the mad pee-er. :)

Comments

[jerusha]

You're looking great! And Gen is just too cute.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Thanks. She is really adorable, but she's just learned to roll over, so now she doesn't stay where I put her.

[eurydice72.livejournal.com]

Look at how adorable! These are fantastic pics. :)

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Our photographer is wonderful. I'm hoping to have her photograph us every year.

[desdemonaspace]

How beautiful you all are! And you're a blonde now. I remember you with light brown hair, sort of a dark gold.

That baby is gorgeous. I'm glad she's easy.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I just keep getting blonder (unless you look at my roots). With Gen and Derek's dark hair, I think I need to stay blond to stand out!

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Wonderful pics. I love the one where she looks like she's about to take off on her own. Very determined expression. :)

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

That's definitely her. I figure she'll be sitting up on her own within a couple of weeks, crawling by 6 months and walking at 8 months. You know, just like how I did to my parents. A large part of my reorganizing and tidying is terror that she'll break/lose all our important stuff when she gets mobile. :)

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Gen is thoroughly adorable!

I feel your pain on the pet front. My two are 15 years old. Geriatric pets have their own unique problems.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

She is pretty cute, thank heavens. Otherwise I would have sold her ages ago. :)

Derek says we're running a cat old folks home. Trance and Trippy are 15, and Trance has kidney failure and Trippy has hyperthyroidism, AJ is 8 and diabetic, and Lyra is only 5 so we don't know what's wrong with her yet, other than a bad case of chin acne.

[ares132006.livejournal.com]

What a lovely family you are! Fabulous photos.

Glad your cat's health problems have been sorted.

I have a 17 year old cat and she's always been in wonderful health.

Fingers crossed I haven't just jinxed it. :)

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Hopefully we can control AJs issues with diet - I'll know more on Tuesday. While there have been a few accidents since this post, it's been no where near as bad as it had been.

And Gen is a wonderful addition to our family - Derek is totally smitten. :)

[ares132006.livejournal.com]

I hope that the diet thing works, for all your sakes.