Pups are 8 weeks old!

I have been delinquent in posting news and photos - Eight puppies take up a lot of time and energy!  Here are some new pics taken over the last couple of weeks.  Puppies have been to the vet for their health check and first set of shots - of course everyone LOVED them!  The kids will start going home this weekend!

How could you not love that face?  Purple boy is available to a show home!

 

Chewing on the water hose is lots of fun!!!

 

 

You go DOWN the slide silly, not up it!

 

 

Let's get Mom!!!!

 

 

Two of the girls spending some quality time together!

 

 

Who needs expensive toys when we have plastic pots to carry around!

Six weeks old today!

It is so hard to believe the babies are SIX weeks old already.  Here are some photos from the weekend!

 

Lots of room  to play and sleep when we stay in the pen!

 

 

My own King Size Bed!!!

 

 

Now - I want out NOW - not in a minute!  Westminster is on TV and I want to watch!

 

 

It's a good thing Mom bought the big bowl!

Peeking!

Peeking out of the whelping box - I don't want to miss anything!

Our first trip to the backyard!

The puppies had a big weekend with lots of company and their first trip out to the backyard.  They played and played with both human visitors and each other.  Mama Bella kept a close eye on things!

Just like the last Bella x Tristan litter these puppies are fascinated by all my empty pots!

 

 

Pups had great fun running in and out from under the climber and playing with Bella.

 

 

After the puppies eat their puppy food, Bella provides dessert!

 

Bella won't let them stray too far away in the yard - there is plenty of time for that later!

 

 

After about an hour outside the puppies are all tuckered out and ready to sleep!

Lots of excitement!

Lots of excitement and changes for the puppies the last few days!  They are now eating puppy food (softened) two times a day.  They either eat their meal in the puppy pen OR - big excitement - outside in the dog run/patio area!  Bella is not sure about them wandering around out there and tries to herd them all together but they have been pretty brave so far!  A couple even ventured out onto the rocks!  This weekend if weather is good enough I hope to take them out into the big back yard for an outing or two!  My friend Lynne is coming to visit and help with the puppies so it should be lots of fun!

We sure like our groceries!!!

 

 

It's a whole new world out here and  we were so BRAVE!!!

 

 

Back to the whelping box for fun and games and then sleep! Blue boy and Orange Boy are always "hamming it up" - they must think there is a prize for most photogenic!

 

The Great Escape!!!

An exciting night!  Around 2 am I kept hearing a puppy making noise.  This happens and usually they will settle right down but it just got louder!  I got up to check on them and found not one, not two, but THREE puppies out of the box!!!  One had made it out of the room squeezing behind the baby gate that is leaning up against the door and all the way down the hall.  Another was standing by Bella, and yet a third had crawled into Bella's crate and was laying there!  All this and Bella never barked!  I guess she figured they were making enough noise!  I retrieved everyone and put the FULL size door in the box.  It is around 20" tall so I think that should contain them awhile, but Bella can still jump in and out as she feels like it.

How much longer do I have to do the work Mom?

 

 

Plotting the Great Escape!!!

 

What a Weekend!

The puppies have had a VERY busy weekend.  On Saturday, they got to try real food for the first time!  They took right to it eating out of pie plates.  I think there was more on them than in them but they had fun.  Next we fed in their puppy feeding pan - more IN them this way!  I decided on Sunday to go ahead and set the puppy pen up - they are not getting out of the whelping box yet but it helps to have a different place to feed them - while they are eating I can clean up their box and put down new bedding and toys.  They did great in the pen while eating but once that distraction was over they figured out they were in a whole new part of the house and oh my gosh look at everything we can see and hear now!  One thing led to another and soon all 8 puppies were barking and playing at the top of their lungs!  Bella could hear them outside!  We are settling into a routine of feeding a few times a day and then Bella nurses them after that and in between feedings.  Soon Bella won't have to spend the  night with the pups and can come back in the bedroom with me and Kolt!

 

Here we are having our second yummy meal!  We look like a pinwheel don't we? 

Then Mom got the bright idea to feed us in the puppy pen which is in the dining area!  Oh boy we had fun there and barked and played a LOT!

 

 

Back to our box and it was fun playing there too!

 

 

Pink Girl finally cuddled up on a toy and fell asleep!

 

 

Here we are all tuckered out in our box this morning after breakfast and play time!