Monday June 3 -- Success and Nostalgia

Moving the whelping bed upstairs into our bed room turned out to be a huge success! Cocoa only woke me up 4 times during the night instead of bothering me constantly and she wasn't crying at all. I'm not sure how we'll deal with this when they're a little larger but one step at a time.

From day to day the puppies aren't changing much -- just getting bigger. Cocoa seems to be doing a great job of keeping them clean and feeding them.

I thought, over the next few days, I'll post some more pictures of the parents.

This is a cute picture of Cocoa from early 2012 looking back at a small piece of bone. You can just see her asking herself "How did I miss that -- I was sure I ate the WHOLE thing!" She had been groomed a few days earlier and her coat is still quite fluffy.

This picture was taken January 30, 2013, and shows both of them lying down at the back door. You see that Chai has much deeper colouring still because he is still immature (about 6 months old in this picture). We think his adult coat may be slightly redder than a typical wheaten because of his Airedale mom but we won't know for sure for at least another six months; their coats are not always the final adult colour until they are well over a year old. He definitely has a wheaten terrier coat though; there is absolutely no wire hairs in his coat (Airedales have a curly wire hair); in fact, while Cocoa has a few black guard hairs on her back Chai does not seem to even have these -- his coat is wonderfully soft and fun to pet.