Good morning, good morning the little dogs say. They saw me on the ottobenbed when they woke up this morning and told me so. I reached in to greet them and they mobbed my hands. This is one of my favorite milestones ;-)
They’ve also started to fuss when MarmieCarmie cleans them when they are cuddling/eating. She pays them no mind but it’s still pretty funny to hear the puppy version of “awww Moooooomm”
They aren’t quite ready to sleep in the toy basket on their own yet but are becoming very adept at playing monarch of the mountain when it’s turned over and draped with a blanket for traction. That means it’s time to include more of the totofit stuff in their area.
They’re also suddenly very good at playing with me and transition to being cuddly. Having definite potty signs (pee mostly because Marmie usually does the poo stimulation/cleaning - good girly): if they fuss much when being held and seem intent on being put down, they invariably go over to pee. So sometimes, I try to just put them adjacent to the potty spot instead of right on it to let them do it themselves. More than once, a puppy’s been gnawing on me (still no teefers yet), stops and toddles over to the ugodog to pee. Depending on what’s happening, I’ll cheer for the puppy but if the rest are nursing I just gently praise them so as not to disturb MarmieCarmie
I need to find/rig up a little shelf to put my phones while I’m in the puppy pen. In my pocket, I might ‘turn a puppy digging it out and miss the picture. Whereever else I lay it, a puppy or Marmie finds it so I;m constantly moving it around.
I wore slickery pants this am in preparation for big dog grooming today (and I am surprised that I actually managed to brush all 3; do their nails; shave 2 butts and give them showers because I frequently fall into the puppy vortex). Poor puppies get all relaxed in my lap only to slide off and have to wriggle back into position. It happened repeatedly porr little pupsters might want to file a grievance. They’ll probably enjoy that as bigger puppies though.
One of the times I was in with the puppies today, the big dogs went running to greet Uncle Daddy. Sound asleep puppies all picked up their heads to watch. They didn’t get up but they did watch very attentively for a couple of minutes before going back to sleep.
I think we’ll see if we can all go to sleep now. I have to get up in the night to feed MarmieCarmie (it takes multiple meals to keep her caloric needs met so she doesn’t become skin and bones nursing the puppies) and we could all use a little more sleep. Nighty, nighty, nighty. Puppy breath to all
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