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Sometimes I get scared that I won’t think that my baby is as cute as some animals out there. Throughout my entire pregnancy, I’ve joked about wanting to give birth to kittens (and then have subsequent dreams about actually giving birth to and breastfeeding (!!) kittens), polar bears, puppies and anything else that I find adorable at the time instead of a human baby.

Just look at these brand new kittens! How can a human baby compete with them? Or the sly look on this guy’s face! It’s almost too much for me to handle.

I love cats more than I like most people. I mourned the cats I left behind in The Gambia, Mexico and the BVI for much longer than what’s probably healthy. Clive found video footage of our cats in Mexico, and I actually cried a little.

On an semi-related note, both of our betta fish have died in the past month. One was sick for a long time, and the other died of either kidney failure or a severe constipation issue. His body blew up and his scales resembled a pine cone. I asked Clive to flush him down the toilet before his actual death because his flesh was actually cracking along his belly. The good news is, is that they don’t have to make the trek across Canada with us.