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The Nellkins

A photographic update on the Nellkins, who’ll be one week old this week! How time flies… they’re finally acting like puppies (as opposed to helpless little newborns). They’re having itty bitty mouth wars, yipping itty bitty puppy barks, and developing personalities of their own.

Rumble is independent — he doesn’t like you to help him try to find the nipple. He’ll do it himself, thanks all the same. As you might have noticed in the photos, he is almost always to be found next to Pixie. I think he’s got big brother syndrome. He has meltingly sweet eyes, and loves having his head scritched.

Pixie is fiesty – she likes to wrestle and play, and she loves to roll over and have her belly rubbed. She’s a fierce eater, and will knock her siblings out of the way if they stand between her and food. She usually sleeps on top of Rumble. She still only has one tiny freckle on her nose.

Jelly, formerly Calliope, is just plain sweet! She sleeps on her back, loves tummy rubs, heads straight for people as soon as they show up, and likes to hide underneath the edge of the blanket. Her eyes are shoe button dark and completely round, giving her the look of a Japanese anime character.

Thor is hungry! This boy can eat – and eat and eat and eat. He loves to rough house, he chases your fingers if you drag them across the bed, and he barks tiny little puppy barks if you make ‘yipping’ sounds at him. He’s tons of fun.

Butters is still the softest thing I have ever felt. She has a thick, double coat, more like a pug than a Frenchie, and a beautiful face. Penelope plays the most with her, because Butters really tries to engage her in play. She loves having the side of her face rubbed, and she doesn’t like sleeping on her back.

The rest of the photos are here, on Flickr.

Heart Explores Her World

Heart and her Daddy
Heart Meets Her Daddy

We started putting Heart out in the playpen in the family room — it gives her a chance to interact with the other dogs, see people, and experience more sights and sounds. So far, she’s enjoying it. What she’s not enjoying is weaning — why should she, when she lives with a walking dairy bar? We’re going to let her take it at her own pace — Tula is spending time out running and playing with the dogs while Heart is in the playpen, so that should make her a bit more motivated to cut off the milk train.

Here’s a video of Heart in her playpen – as always, you can see it full sized over on Blip. Oh, and in case you’ve never noticed, there’s a little button on the bottom of the video that looks like a video monitor. That lets you view the video full screen. On my 24″ monitor, the resolution is pretty good.

Frenchie Film Festival

In honor of the Toronto film festival, two new videos of the Nellkins are up on Blip. A new one of Heart will be coming tomorrow.

Teh Cuteness, She is To Die From

Heart is a Monkey Girl

Just stop. Stop with the cuteness and the looking like a stuffed monkey. Seriously, it is getting redonculous, and there is only so much a mere mortal can take.

Sigh. We’re all doomed. I’m never going to get any work done, because I am going to spend the next four weeks crawling around on the floor and saying “Ooooh, puppy wuppy buppy! Who is de cutest puppy in de world? You are! You are!”.

Seriously, puppies. They need to be outlawed, for the good of all mankind. Oh, wait — I live in Ontario. They almost are.