4/29

Growing like weeds! Yellow boy, blue boy, and pink girl have more than doubled their birth weights, and little Elaine and green boy are very close to doubling their weights. Here is their weight chart for the first week.

wt at birth (oz) 23-Apr 24-Apr 25-Apr 26-Apr 27-Apr 28-Apr 29-Apr green boy 13 14 15.6 17.5 19.4 21 23 25.4 yellow boy 12 12 14.2 15.8 17.7 20.5 22.5 25.5 blue boy 12 12.5 15.4 17.2 19.9 22.2 23.4 25.5 Little Elaine 12 11.5 12.2 14.3 16.4 17.8 18.8 19.8 pink girl 9 10.5 11.7 13.2 15.2 17 19.4 20.8 No eyes open yet; that probably won't happen for at least another week, so we have another week of relative peace and quiet. They are all wagging their tails. Elaine is very relaxed about having the other dogs in the house near the puppies. The puppies are in our bedroom, and the first three nights, we kept the door closed to keep the other dogs out and to minimize drafts. When we opened the door to see what Elaine would do if the other dogs came into the room, she was fine with it, so now our other dogs can sleep on the bed where they normally sleep. They were quite unhappy being shut out. They just look into the whelping box from time to time but otherwise don't intrude on the little mother and her brood. Elaine enjoys hopping onto the bed with us to watch a bit of TV. We bring one puppy at a time up on the bed with her for a bit of private nursing time and some time to get used to being handled. They all seem to enjoy the human touch.