Pupdate 2 days old

I'm feeling much more rested today. Still have a lot of sleep to catch up on but I don't expect to do that until after the puppies are weaned and gone to their new homes and then I'll cry myself to sleep.

Jill and the puppies had a good night but Bruce (aka 'the daddy' or 'not the mama' as he calls himself to the dogs) didn't sleep a lot. He slept on one of the couches in the rubber room to be near Jilly and the whelping box. Jill was hot and/or hurting a little from her surgery so she wanted the fuzzy thing out of the box. She didn't want to lay on it but when she moved it, she worried that the puppies would get lost in the folds so she convinced the daddy to help her take it out. He said after that they settled in.

Jack and I slept up in the bed ;-). It's not feasible to put the whelping box in our room as it's upstairs and we have light grey carpeting (obviously we didn't have dogs or kids when we built the house.) Jack doesn't often sleep in the bed as he doesn't rest as much out of his crate (at least when I am home) since he is 'on call' out of his crate.

I've tried to have the weight watchers meeting several times but the pupsters are too wriggly for the scale to talk. Cindi brought some of the stuff for me to make Indy's food and took some pictures and helped conduct the meeting.

Here are the results:

• Royal 14.7 oz (up .7)
• Pink 13.6 (up .3)
• Purple 11.7 (up a full ounce -Good girl!)
• Baby blue 14.4 -14.7 (he was pretty squiggly so it was hard to get a reading even for someone who could see the scale)
• Green 13.7 (up .5 oz)
• Lime 15.3 (up .6 oz)

We'll play fun with numbers as we hold more weight watchers meetings. (I was a CPA after all, have to do something with those spreadsheets.)

Little pupsters are already pretty mobile. They can turn around and find their way back to the bar from anywhere in the box. Jill lines them up in the middle before she gets up to move to the other side. She doesn't take any chances on stepping on anyone. If they aren't all together when she gets back from walking the plank, she lines them up before she settles back in.

Some of them sing while they eat and they can be vocal when they feel the need but nothing like the consistent cries of ol yeller (from the last litter.) At least he didn't continue that in his new home.