This is pretty much what we do every afternoon after lunch, for varying amounts of time depending on how hot it is and how much stuff I have to do.  Notice how much they like to wade in the water bowl.  LOL  Junebug is definitely the alpha among the puppies…and by alpha I mean that she controls the pack, not that she’s aggressive.  She’s a sweetheart, mellow and calm most of the time.  I can see the wheels turning in her head a lot. 

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My days are going to start getting VERY busy as I try to get ready for the trip to Ohio this coming week, my mom, sister, niece, and nephew who are visiting the week after that, my baby boy’s 2nd birthday party, and oh yeah, socializing, evaluating, and loving on the puppies.  I’ll try to keep up with the daily cutes when I can but you have to promise not to hate me if I let it slide here and there. 

Echo, goofing off in the corner

Cade and Jenna share some love, from a couple days ago

I will definitely blame Cindi and Patti for the lack of a daily cute yesterday.    How cute are they though, they came to visit complete with a bag of puppy toys!

Ears are starting to flip up when they lay down! They almost look like Cardis now...

Finally, a decent picture of June

Guess who my favorite is.

We’ve been hanging out on the deck during the day, because it’s too blazing hot in the sun to go out on the driveway (which gets shade in late afternoon), and in the backyard where we have shade all day, the grass is too thick.  We have bermuda grass, and it’s really hard for the puppies to walk through.    So I put a baby gate across the deck stairs, and keep a close eye to make sure nobody takes after their father and wedges themselves between the bars so they can hurl themselves onto the ground, and voila!  Puppy play area.

Madeline likes to wallow in the water bowl.  And Lucy can jump straight up in the air!

Madeline says "Pick me!"

The puppy socializer extraordinaire

Cade's wittle belly

Well, pretend it’s still Monday. 

Usually when we’ve been doing playtime in the house I’ve been doing 2 or 3 puppies at a time.  Last night it was getting late, I was tired, so we did ALL the puppies at once.  Talk about hilarious!  I tried to grab the camera in time to film it when like 7 of them were frapping around together at once, but didn’t get it in time.  This is long and not too exciting, just cute puppies running around having fun.  I’m amazed at how much more “busy” they are even from just a few days ago!

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Also, some lessons learned, just for fun:

1) If you build a litter box and put a back/sides on it to keep litter from getting all over the place, be sure to make the sides high enough that the puppies don’t think they can crawl over them.

2) Also on the litter box, a bottom is a good idea.  I made it just a frame to start with, but they knocked into it so much that then it would start lifting up and litter would come out from the bottom, and then you’re screwed.    I added a bottom this past weekend and it’s been MUCH better.

3) Up to 6 puppies can sleep in one 200 crate.  So the puppies say.

4) Puppies eat a LOT.

5) Wearing capris with ties at the bottom while walking into the puppy pen is like challenging them to try to bring you down.

Heidi is coming over to attempt stacked pics later!  I’m not holding my breath, they are much less cooperative this week. 

Madeline for dinner?

Dave was outside washing the car, so we all came and “helped”.

Charlie and Harmony

Madeline…maybe she’s a Beamer girl?   I could totally see her being into fast cars.