Christmas is coming!

And I'm not ready!  Trying to get ready for fifteen extra people is mindboggling, especially for a clutter bug like I am.  Trying though.

One of my sisters arrived two days ago and a second yesterday.  We attended the kennel club Christmas party last night for tons of fun.  My sisters, Caroline and Katy, fit right in!  More people arrive this weekend and Monday and Tuesday from Hawaii, New York, Bellingham and Indiana!  Wow!  Are we gonna have fun or what?!!!!!!

Anybody cold and dreaming of Hawaii like I am?!!!

Christmas Tom.  He lives in Seattle and has inventive parents!!! 

OK.  I know.  Where are the PUPPY pictures?!!!!!  Who needs all this silly stuff?!!!

The babies are about as sweet as they can be now.  They run to my lap for floor time.  They run and jump on all of the equipment on the kitchen floor.  What daredevils!  What sweet babies.  What wonderful puppy breath!  How lucky can one curmudgeon get?!!!

Hey, what's this?!!!!  It is Christmas, not Halloween!

The kids, both canine and human, were lucky last Sunday.  Four girls came to play with seven boys!  They also came to see grown-up Border Terriers, but they didn't really admit that.

Playing puppies get tired out.

Big time.

The girls very much wanted to take their puppies home with them THEN, RIGHT THEN!....

Another tired puppy!

Pip doing double mama duty.

More tired puppies!

I do love seeing their ears relax back when they nurse at this age.  It is a sign of happiness.

They find the cutest places to sleep when they are beat to a frazzle!

Which had more fun, the girls or the puppies?

Snow bells?!  No, snow forecast for the next two days.

Who is dreaming of Hawaii and avocados when it is so nice and gray outside?!!!

You should see Tobi's Christmas picture!

Sunday the puppies went outside for the first time.  They quickly got cold, but thought it a worthy look at the world for a few minutes. 

So, I hope that everyone is going to have as much fun for Christmas as I am.  Merry Christmas and I'll smell puppy breath for you every day!
From Curmudgeonville

Growly, barky, rascally babies! They must be Border Terriers! Or ARE they?!!!!

Mr. Manta Ray, sleeping....  Glutton

WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!???

Big black thing in there!!!!

Awful lot of puppies!!!

How can this be?!!!!

Both litters combined...

Plus, a poor baby boy who has no brothers or sisters. He is a a Bernese Mountain Dog whose mother was bitten by a spider while she was pregnant and all the other puppies died, sadly.  Boo, because he was born on Halloween, is going to learn to play with other puppies, sadly with Border Terrier puppies and not his own size puppies.  That is, until he meets up with BRYCE!!!

And, he says, he doesn't eat much when he lunches on them!!!Actually he is very sweet and quite overwhelmed.  Who wouldn't be with nine Border Terrier puppies all over him?!!!  You DID notice Mr. Manta on top of him, correct?!!!

The whole batch!

How did Ms. Beautiful Mai slip in there?!!!!

So, you have most of the story of the week from the pictures.  

There are people who want puppies coming this weekend to drool.  Maybe they will also help socialize puppies.  Mr. Boo is coming again and I am hoping that there is a bit of time when it isn't raining that the puppies can play outside.  The nine will stay at my house now and learn to climb on wobbly things, climb different textures, explore noises and mirrors and metal and wood and rock, etc.  They will end up being well rounded hunters of fun.  I'm afraid that they may all learn to sit as a group this weekend even if they are going to go into the show ring!  Waaa say some who will be taking them into the show ring.  Oh well, get over it!  

Spencer's first major, last weekend down in Ridgefield, WA.  Near Portland.

More pictures of Mr. Boo.

He acclimated to Border Terrier puppies after a bit.  He was overwhelmed at first.

Manta thinks he is a mountain to climb!

 Well, hopefully I'll get lots of pictures this weekend.  Fingers crossed for the cross curmudgeon!
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Can't keep up!!!

The little rascals aren't so little any more!  They now have teeth and are letting me know that they do!  So far they are gentle, soon they won't be.
They are on the floor every day now, but, until today just in the livingroom in front of their pen.  Today they took a foray into the kitchen and didn't stay much on the cloth on the floor.  The BIG thing though was the extra dog in there, Bryce, the four month old, the berserk adolescent!  He was beside himself and you will see that in the pictures below.  The wild eye, the big paw.  He was pretty gentle despite himself.  Sweet.  They will play well together soon.
Francie's pups are sweet and fat and sweet even more.  They aren't ready for the slippery floor yet, but will be in about five or six days.
Did I tell you that they are also wagging their tails?  It is heartwarming to see.
OK, you say, ENOUGH OF THE GIBBERISH!  PICTURES!!!!!
OK, say I.  Pictures!

Eager to play Bryce

Yesterday in the living room.  Explorers.

Bryce with the wild eye!  "Play with me!"

Bryce thinks he's in love.  More FRIENDS!

Fandange, asleep

Dish.

Seven

Manta

Froggie got left out this time except in the big pictures.
More soon.
c

Thank goodness for puppies!!! Thanksgivukkah tomorrow

The skies are blue for today and tomorrow and the old curmudgeon is getting better from a horrid bug.  Thank goodness!

Pip's brats are growing up.  They now growl, and this morning attacked PIP'S food!!!!  That gave Pip a bit of motivation to eat her own food, even though the babies were probably only smelling it!

Little rascals think that they are now big and can do ANYTHING!!!!  They don't even have teeth yet!

See why Pip was worried she'd get nothing?!!!!

Rascally babies!

But, REAL nutrition was at hand.

Packed in tightly.  Sometimes I can't even tell if they are all there.  One or two are totally under the others!

Francie's puppies are just now opening their eyes.  Sweet little fat babies.  Francie is wondering when she can wean them and have her cushy life back being an only child!!!  I told Nancy that Francie WILL be groomed when she comes to my house!

Pip and all five, but who can tell?!  Tightly packed!

OK.  All these rest are Francie's baby boys. 

Not quite bouncing, but wiggling.

I think that we lost the bottom half of one of them!

Not much eye visible, so you'll have to take my word for it!

Wiggly pigglies!

Sweet though.

I think that I see a foot of the bottom half of Mr. Big there!

The sweet lineup.  The middle on in MY LEFT hand is the blue.

Happy Thanksgivukkah!  From the Curmudgeon and the Elwha Pack