days 6-12 - growing pains

long days and long nights, bouts of deep deep sleep, then lengthy feed sessions, followed by cleaning and i mean a lot of cleaning......including the things the pups leave behind!

the week was mixed, toby went up to london for a meeting on monday, back down that night, and then away again on wednesday, only to be back friday. i miss him when he's away, especially now with all the pups. i'm lucky to have fiona here looking after us all, but it's just that for 4.5 years i've been almost everywhere with tobes.  hope it's not always like this?

so nice to sit in the sun, at least for a few minutes!

weekends are very busy, lots of visitors. yesterday, toby's brother max popped by, then jenny came to stay and then friends of toby's from new zealand - who currently live in dubai - donna, andy, fin, maya and riley (hope i've got the spelling right??). and of course mary pops in most days, though i think i must have been asleep when she came in? anyway, i was knackered by the time everyone had left, slept like a log last night!

in my own basket at last

had a yummy leg of lamb today. jenny cooked a roast, smelled sooo delicious, my mouth was watering! such a contrast to dried dog food, which although good, it is a little dull. having said that, toby has been adding mince to my food, so that's been an improvement....but for how long?

diet obviously ok though, they're all growing though, ranging from miss grey at 850g yesterday up to 1200g for both mr yellow and mr turquoise.

huddling together for comfort and warmth



however, what's good for the pups may not be so good for me. weighed myself today 46kg! normally around 41kg and my teats are huge! hope i'm gonna be able to get rid of these in a few weeks??? hydrotherapy is apparently the answer, i'll have to make sure toby sorts this out for me once i've weaned the pups off the milk. weaning starts next week, thank the lord! yes, that's right, week three starts on wednesday.

adorable while they sleep!










naming, well that's a challenge. i know toby's got to register a kennel name and names for each puppy - i wonder if he'll like the ones i've chosen? it's very exciting! but even more so, mr white (collar) opened his eyes on friday! fiona was the first to see him and mary popped in and saw them open too. some of the others are starting to open their eyes, very slowly. still, i doubt they'll be seeing very much for a while still.

they sleep everywhere and anywhere