Wes’s Life

So Friday was good and Sat­ur­day was as well, but Sunday took the cake. Most Sun­days start out good, but kinda wane down as I start to think of Monday morn­ing and the begrudg­ingly rudi­men­tary rou­tine. Not so much this Sunday.

My girl­friend and I decided to go to Gillie’s (a great veg­e­tar­ian place here in Blacks­burg, VA) for break­fast with her room­mate and roommate’s boyfriend. After con­sum­ing way too much food, which included “Very Berry French Toast” and “Pump­kin Choco­late Chip Whole-​Grain Pan­cakes” we had to go back to my place for my flour sifter because she was going to make Irish Soda Bread! And that was just the start.

She decided she wanted to make Corned Beef with pota­toes, Irish Soda Bread and Apple Crisp for dinner. And let’s just say it was awe­some. Now, I like corned beef alright, but this was just great; prob­a­bly the best I’ve had.

So that was fine and dandy and we were sit­ting around watch­ing TV when Payton started becom­ing uncom­fort­able and rest­less. At first we just kinda ignored it, but after a little bit we started to notice that she was ‘leak­ing’. And then with­out much warn­ing, the first puppy started to come out.

Here is a list of all of the pup­pies in their birth order:

1. Maddie - Female, Black with Brindle
2. Tucker - Male, Bronze
3. Annie - Female, Black with Brindle
4. Ella - Female, Black with Brindle
5. Bailey - Female, Light Brown
6. Toby - Male, Black with Brindle
7. Mikey - Male, Dark Brown
8. Lucky - Male, Light Brown

I think Payton started giving birth around 10:30 and the last one was out around 1:10. So over­all, she gave birth faster then the expected one every 30 min­utes. Not that it was uni­form. There was some seri­ous gaps between a few of them and a few came out quickly. I believe Bailey was the one to come out within two min­utes of the pre­vi­ous.

None of them had any birth defects and all of them are healthy and squeak­ing. Can’t wait to see them run­ning around and play­ing.