Hi All,
First, let me tell you that I am astounded and disappointed that none of you has commented on any of my previous posts as to how TOTALLY wonderful my precious babies are. Come on guys...let me hear it!! "Those are the most adorable babies I've ever seen!!!" would be an acceptable comment!
It was a very satisfying and fun weekend (albiet busy) with the babies. They are growing so incredibly fast that it is amazing. Here are some observations and tasks from the weekend:
- Stripes mastitis has become a cyst. Dr. Merry says her body "walled off" the infection into a cyst so the breast is still useable. In fact there is still milk coming from the nipple but there is a hard knot on the side of the breast that burst Friday night with pus leaking. We have to clean it and shoot a hard burst of water at the hole to clean out the pus to try to get it to drain and keep the hole open to allow it to heal from the inside. Sorry, I know that's gross!
- The babies are getting teeth. Not sharp yet but you can definitely feel them.
- They are eating three dog food meals a day now and she is slowly weaning them. This makes them loud (and cute) because they still want to suck as much as possible.
- They are starting to play with each other now. Very cute to watch who has dominance and who is more passive
- They smell soooooo sweet. That is unless they have just eaten.....then they just smell like dog food!
- They are walking very well now!
- OK, I know you are going to think I've gone completely off my rocker when I tell you this, but, they are now squatting to poop. Before they just laid there like little fat sausages. But now that they are up on their feet, they squat.
- This morning I looked in on them when I was getting ready for work and they had all pooped over night but they all went in a little pile in the corner of the box. Even I think I'm a little bit warped when I say I think this was "cute".
So, now here are some pics from the weekend:
This is the three week "Laudry basket" picture. Dana's response after seeing this picture was "Are you sure that's the same laundry basket?"
Playing...blurry because they are all in motion!
More playing....
Eating.....
Mama cleaning a bottom.. she is such a good Mama!
That's Sonny....front and center. He's the biggest and boldest.
Dr. Merry brought her family over on Friday night to see the babies. Her brother is just a big Golden Retriever fan as I am. Dr. Merry's daughter was graduating from High School so her whole family was in town. She brought her brother, sister, brother in law, niece, nephew, mother and son and we set on the lawn with a puppy in each lap and talked about my babies for a couple of hours. It was a lot of fun! Dr. Merry's son, Will is taking the other boy (I call him Tyrone, because he's the dark male.) I grilled Will about how Tyrone would be care for and trained and he passed the test. He is almost as excited as I!!
He's quite a neat kid. He's 15 with 2 years of high school left. I really like him. Tyrone will have a good home!!
Love you all!!
Sher
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