5.5 and 6 weeks - -cuter, cuter and more cuter

 You can do it -- big step !!

 INTO THE BIG YARD WE GO  - LEAVES AND TALL GRASS AND CHICKENS.

THERE ARE HILLS AND GULLIES AND ALL MANNER OF NEW THINGS TO EXPLORE

OK OK, I'm not a great movie maker but you get the idea. 

and back to the deck for a little snooze and wrestle in the dish

We have moved to the Great Outdoors

7 puppies fill a 5 x 4 foot box pretty quickly.  For the previous few days they spent their days on the back deck and came in at night.  Yesterday, at just over 4 weeks, they moved to the puppy pen outside....  
It did not take them long to get used to the feel of shavings and grass and straw and dirt under their feet and soon they were romping and exploring!  Here are a few photos I took this morning.  As usual, they play hard, then sleep wherever they land.  
I miss having them in the house in their box right next to my desk and underfoot in the kitchen.  So, now I get even LESS work done as I am outside in their pen playing with them as often as I can.  

 Here's looking at you !

3 WEEKS AND GROWING STRONG

 CROWD THE CORNERS

 FIRST PUPPY FOOD

When I start feeding puppies I chose to put it on a towel rather than in a bowl; they don't slide around in it and clean-up is easier as they aren't all sloppy from the mush.  They LOVED it from the very first; their teeth are coming through now.  Mom has done a great job bringing them to this point and she will continue to nurse them for a few more weeks.

     Yes, that little sister is laying on her brothers head 

Fed, clean and ASLEEP!