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Week One
April 18th

Good evening everyone!! Puppies are growing like weeds and the process of opening their eyes has begun. They will probably have them fully open by Wednesday. All pups, as of yesterday at 9 days of age, weigh between 2.6 lbs and 3 lbs. So that means everyone has doubled + their weights.

"Are the shoulders touching the mat???? I know I have him pinned. Come on ref!! This match is mine!!!!! --Royal"

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April 18th - Turkey Balls

"Hi this is me, Lilac. I am about to eat my first turkey ball. It sure smells good! It was great!! Yummmm. BTW, Gramma weighed me today and she said I weighed 56.4 oz."

"Hey, hey, it's my turn - come on - I have things to say. Hi, I'm LT. Not sure what that smell is. Wow!! Whatever it was sure tastes great!!! oh, oh, oh, I wanted to tell you I actually took some real live steps today. . . Woohooo."

"Okay, LT, it's my turn now. It's me, PeachyKeen. I am really getting to be a big girl; Royal and I weigh the same. Oh, LT weighs 52.9 oz. now, but Royal and I weigh 59.9 oz. This turkey ball business is pretty darn good if I do say so myself. I have both of my eyes almost all the way open. Still can't focus, none of us can yet, but we all have eyes now. "

"My turn!! The name's Purple Girl and I am peeking out at you now. Not so sure we like all the light. You can find us most of the time under the pig rail or under the sheets. I weigh 49.3 oz. now and am still the lightweight, but not by much. I am afraid I left my lady manners at home when Gramma got close with that turkey ball thing. One second it was there and the next it was gone and I had a good time sucking on Gramma's fingers trying to get every last piece of it."

"I suppose it is FINALLY my turn, eh?? Royal checking in at long last. Boy were my brother and sisters long winded. I have both of my eyes open, too. Can't see very well, but that doesn't stop my nose from working. Gramma stepped into the whelping box and before she could even turn around I had made it all the way to her and was kissing her on the foot. She said, "awwwww" and picked me up and gave me some extra loving. Don't tell her, but her training has begun. Won't be long til she is wrapped around my paw!"

More Turkey Ball pictures

Week Two

April 22nd

"We are two weeks old today--Woohoo--(we haven't learned how to howl yet.) But, we do give angry yips now. We are talking a little better.

We got our first nail clipping today. Our little nails were getting pretty long and quite sharp. Joe held us while Gramma did the clipper and the file thing. She says when we are older she will use a thing called a "dremel" on our nails. We don't know what that is, but whatever Gramma says.

We like those things called turkey balls--yummm--we all suck on Gramma's fingers to make sure we get every last piece. Gramma is tricking us into eating the Fastrack first and then she puts that turkey ball right in front of our noses so we forget about the Fastrack and go straight for the turkey"

more Two Week update pictures

Week Three

April 28th

Gosh, can you believe it? We will be 3 weeks old tomorrow. Wow! Gramma says we are getting very big! Like what were we supposed to do, get smaller???

Yesterday Gramma gave us our first cereal. We weren't sure exactly how to eat it. It didn't suck up good; boy, was it a lot of trouble to get our tongues working to eat it up. No pictures from yesterday as Joe was sleeping and there was no one else to take any pictures. So, today, Gramma decided she would just give us our first group cereal feeding.

We aren't used to bending our heads down to eat. That took some getting used to. Then L.T decided he wanted to do some cereal surfing. The show-off. Boy, did we make a mess. Gramma had to keep mom back behind the gate until we were nearly through.

We are all asleep right now (well, with the exception of me, naturally - otherwise who would be telling the story, Gramma???

more Cereal pictures

May 2nd

Hi Everyone! We were three weeks old on Thursday. Gramma is sorry she didn't get out the weights and pictures like she said she would. She made lots of noise yesterday; something about grinding up puppy kibble to add to our rice cereal. We got our first taste of that stuff yesterday at lunch -- Wow! A new taste for us. We are liking this stuff that Gramma brings us on that platter thingy. She says that she is going to add some yogurt to our food sometime today.

We got our first bath yesterday so we could get our pictures taken. No extra hands available to take bath pictures, sorry. But here are a couple of pictures of Joe keeping us nice and warm while we finish drying off. But first. . . remember when this was taken?? Look how small we were.

And yesterday this is how big we are. We are certainly more than a handful now. This is Joe holding Purple and PeachyKeen.

Okay, now for 3 week old pictures and weights were taken on Thursday when they were three weeks old.

May 3rd

Hi Everyone! Gosh, we are 3-1/2 weeks old and guess what. . .WE HAVE TEETH!!!!! Oh boy! It is so neat to chew on the pig rail in the whelping box. Gramma is threatening to take it out; Mom isn't too happy with our teeth either. We can hear Gramma coming now. She can't be too quiet these days. We hear everything! And if we try hard enough, we can get out of our whelping box if she leaves the door down; Lilac is the best at getting out.

Today was great!! Gramma needed some puppy time, so she climbed into the whelping box with us and we all got to love on her, chew on her (and her dress) and she started teaching us how to play with our toys. We had a great time - don't think Gramma's dress had such a great time. Boy is that thing thin-skinned; Gramma says she won't be wearing it for a while - something about trying to sew it back together.

Lilac likes chewing on Gramma's fingers, but Gramma showed her how to chew on the toy. Peach wanted to snuggle, so Gramma said, "Come on up here" and she did - I think she knows her name already. Royal playing with one of the toys and then testing out Gramma's dress. . . Hmmmmm

Me and Purple got behind Gramma and took a nap, so she didn't get our pictures.. . But she says next time we won't get away with not getting our pictures taken. . .more playtime pictures

L.T.

Today, Joe decided he would read to us. That was way more fun than we thought reading would be. Lilac wants to whisper in Joe's ear while L.T. wants to chew on Joe's toes. Don't think much reading got done.

more reading time pictures

 

 

"Gramma said there are no official 4 week old pictures this time around, but that she did take some while we were 4 weeks old. On May 5th, we went for our first vet visit. Gramma switched vets. Gramma doesn't remember whether or not we told everyone about the new vet. The new vet is a lady!! And she was so gentle with us. She said we looked very healthy and even though our area out here does not have much of a problem with intestinal worms, that because Gramma wanted it done, we all got worming medicine. It didn't taste so bad.

Anyway, we had a very interesting day. Gramma let us go outside for the first time when we got home from the vet. We got to stay outside for a couple of hours. Gramma wanted us to be outside when the worming medicine started to work. We were not sure about being outside. We kinda huddled together because we could see forever and that was a very big place to us. Mom was outside with us and that helped. Gramma and Joe spent a lot of time with us too."

Purple Girl
more outside playtime pictures