An afternoon of baby-sitting

Pierre-Andre and Berdine (comserve doctor and his wife) rescued two little abandoned puppies and nutured them for several weeks. They really had to work hard, waking up to attend to them several times every night. Anyway, one friday afternoon, they wanted to go shopping in Mthatha but realised the puppies wouldn't do very well left alone for so long, so i offered to baby-sit them.

The puppies required constant attention as my garden is not fenced in and I was terrified they would eat someone's plants and get ex-communicated from the Plaza (our housing compound). Thankfully, after about an hour of running around they would calm down and sleep for an hour. Then they would go crazy again and the cycle would keep repeating itself.

At some point during the puppy-sitting, the children arrived on the scene. Then the puppies would require extra attention as they are a little rough and the kids need protection from getting mauled. The kids also wanted to me to play with them - which I was very keen to do, but it was rather tricky keeping an eye on 5 kids and 2 puppies at the same time!

Puppies and children were all just too cute and needed lots of pictures. No pics of awake puppies as they don't keep still!

Beans
Lily
They may be hard work, but they are super cuddly!

Lesson of the day: I don't want 7 children!