Tuesday, June 28, 2011

guess who's one month old?




please don't judge but we had a first month party for the precious pups :) for the uninitiated, a first month or "man yue" as it is known is a chinese tradition to celebrate the birth of a baby. wikipedia tells me this practice stems from ancient times when hygiene wasn't that hot and the infant mortality rate was high. the family would only celebrate the baby's arrival if it made it through the first month, coinciding with the end of the mother's confinement period.

with purebreds that can be even more fragile than human babies, we didn't want to jump the gun in case the litter didn't clear the one month mark intact. but thankfully they did, and once we could we rallied some friends, got some red eggs (another first month tradition) and grabbed the opportunity to start socialising them puppies young.

the first photo is how we carry seven puppies from A to B, the second is a drowsy sahara in my cousin natalie's arms, and the third is a pup (augh! i don't know which...) passed out from all the excitement.

mind you, there were plenty of baby humans that day too and i'm a little small thing-ed out!

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