Puppies!

This week we experienced God's miracle of life!  It was completely and utterly amazing.  Daisy summed it up as "the grossest and coolest day ever."

Almost 3 weeks to the day after we found her, our little stray Punkin had been nesting most of the afternoon.  Around 5:00 after Daisy had picked her up and put her down she freaked out because she had some dark slimy substance on her hand.  It was SO funny.  I told her it was puppy juice and that meant the babies were comin' any time.

It was a beautiful day and we had dinner outside.  The family was out playing and little ChuChu wanted to play with us.  She started to follow me outside but would turn around every few steps to look at her back side.  That's when I decided to check.  Holy smokes, there was some sort of dark purple sack coming out!  Little girl was going into labor and didn't even know it--she was all about the party.  

We rushed inside with all kinds of squeals of delight.  Daisy was thinking out loud with her little hands palm out in the air, "Calm down.  Just calm down."  Zekers was putting on the hospital gloves we had and boasted, "The doctor's comin' to town tonight!"  Good laughter to get us through the waiting.

We could tell things were finally progressing.  All 3 boys would come in and out to check on her, but the Daiser and I were by her side the whole time.  I could see the doggy's contractions happening.  All at once there was a contraction, something slid out and poor little Punkin yelped twice.  Daisy absolutely freaked.  In an instant she jumped up and was crying as she ran out the door to Daddy.  It still makes me laugh to think about it.

Everyone rushed in to see the miracle of life.  This perfect, tiny little puppy was formed inside its mother.  I said can you believe that some people witness birth and still don't believe God created it.  Daisy very matter of factly stated, "God does create it."  Love that girl's strong faith.

As we were watching and waiting, the kids noticed a faint odor.  I took in a deep breath and with a smile told them that's the smell of life!  They kept breathing heavy and soaking it in.  They kept saying how good the smell of life was and by the end of the evening they were ready to bottle that fragrance and sell it.  

It was a long evening, especially for the poor little momma.  From start to finish it was 5 hours and she had 5 puppies.  They started out light colored and kept getting darker with each one.  Four girls and a boy.  So cute!

I am giving the faint of heart a chance to stop reading.  By the time the last little girl was coming out the momma was so tired she was just lying there.  I totally got to see the puppy come out still in the sack.  Wow.  Ah-maze-ing.  One of the most fascinating things I have seen!

Incredible how babies are formed inside the sack and momma knows to chew the baby out of the sack.  And that sack is tough!  She had to work pretty hard to get through it.  Bless her heart, the first one she got down and gagged it up a few seconds later.  Incredulous that the mother knows she must bite the sack off and eat it, chew the vocal chord (the technical term is umbilical cord, but Zeke kept forgetting that technical term and replaced it with vocal chord), let them try to nurse as she's pushing out more babies, licks their faces to make sure they can breathe, licks their bottoms to make sure the muscles develop to go potty, as gross as it sounds she eats their potty to keep the bedding clean, and so much more.  

Check back in a few weeks after these little things start walking, chewing and poo'ing everywhere.  I may not be as chuffed as I presently am.  Until then we're all about the miracle of life and lovin' every minute of it!