5 Weeks Old! Pretty as a Picture...

Little Miss Kearney

Bailey Boy

Mr. Seamus

So here we are at five weeks old! Each day they look and act a little more like dogs and less like little infants. Don't they look so grown up?!

They went to Pet Helpers yesterday for their weekly weigh in...

Drum roll please!

• Seamus is leading the pack at 7 lbs. 1 oz!
• Kearney is not far behind him at 6 lbs. 14 oz.
• Bailey a respectable 6 lbs. 10 oz.

I am sure that weening off of formula and moving to puppy food (Good bye midnight feedings! I won't miss you!) is responsible for much of the gain this week. They are up to a full 13oz. can of soft food per day per puppy. The evolution of their eating continues with incorporating solid food. Oh, and let's not forget the daily baths in the water bowl. With big dog food come big dog water bowl. Fun stuff.

Speaking of baths, they get a dunk in the sink just about every other day now. Keeping them on a schedule has been key. We feed outside on the patio to keep the mess to a minimum and then they can go straight into play and potty time. House training has been very successful. with strict adherence to the schedule, we have had only one or two poops in their puppy den and them mainly going outside. They use puppy pads when inside and that equals cleaner, less stinky puppies and puppy house and a happier puppy mama.

Feeding takes a bit longer now that they each have big dog bowls. They manage to get in a quick game of musical bowls while eating... so ambitious. I am happy to report that they show no signs of food aggression to people or each other. In fact most of the meal is spent trying to get them to focus on eating instead of seeing if the food is tastier in the next bowl.

After grub, a quick game of bite a tail. They play so hard that 20 minutes of game time and they are exhausted. They let me know when they want to go in, because they toddle up the stairs to the back door. It's really something - they actually tumble UP the stairs.

After four hours of nap and quiet time we get to do it all over!

It's amazing to watch their personalities develop. They see and respond to their world in very distinct ways. I want to tell you all about each one, but the little idiosyncrasies of all three would be too much for one blog post, so I'll let you get to know them separately in days to come.