Latest Count...

We now have:

A plain fawn girl - 15.3oz
A flashy brindle girl - 10.5oz
A plain fawn boy - 15.3oz
A plain brindle girl - 14.8oz

Everyone is doing just fine, all nursing like champs. Lily's taking a bit of a nap before she starts the next round. By the look of her tummy she has at least another three to four in there, possibly more.

I'm not sure how much I'll be able to update as the night goes on (my literacy skills decline as my exhaustion level increases!), but I'll give a full report tomorrow morning.

For now, all's well...keep thinking good thoughts in our direction!

For my friend, Katie...

Dearest Katie...

I received your email just a few minutes ago. I was so sad to hear of your present blogger obsession that I decided I needed to give you a quick update to alleviate your symptoms of withdrawal...

The puppies are coming! The puppies are coming!

So far we have...

A plain fawn girl - 15.3oz
A flashy brindle girl - 10.5oz

More updates as things progress.

Thank you for your kind email, Katie. I hope this helps.

Love always,

the still pregnant Lily

Lily's first baby...

...is a squeaky toy!

I'd put a couple of toys in the box to keep her occupied during the day when I was at work. Tonight as she was getting very serious about digging herself a good bed to have puppies in, she stepped on the squeaky toy, and it did what all good squeaky toys do...it cried.

Well!! Lily stopped digging immediately and proceeded to lick and cuddle this squeaky toy. She's made very sure that the squeaky toy's bum is good and clean. LOL

She's going to be an awesome mom!! :)

Temperature drop!

Lily's temperature has dropped, which indicates the cessation of progesterone production - i.e. the onset of labour. Yeah!!

If all goes well, we should have puppies on the ground in 24 hours or so.

Fingers crossed for an easy delivery! Please think good thoughts in our direction!

No babies yet...

The time is drawing near, though. Lily's belly is huge and she's getting ready to have her babies - licking, cleaning, digging. In general doing everything she's supposed to be doing.

I, of course, am impatient and just wish she'd start already. LOL

Will update once labour starts! :)

It's like the movie, Alien...

...you can see the babies rippling Lily's whole belly.

Creepy but cool all at the same time...my kind of fun!

Just a few more days...

...and Lily can't wait! She's uncomfortable (she DOES have a bunch of little wigglers kicking the crap out of her rib cage and abdomen!) and sucky, but she IS a happy girl. Even though she can barely waddle, she's still trying to play and be silly in her usual Lily fashion.

I snapped some photos of her today...that's quite a belly! Any guesses as to how many she's having? :) What kills me is how much smaller she looks in photos than she does in person...in person it looks like she's carrying around a basketball in that tum-tum of hers!





So, Lily's all ready for babies now...she's bathed and groomed and good to go. The whelping area is all set up and she took great pleasure in digging to China for about 20 minutes yesterday.

According to Lily, all is well in the world! :)