Shaggy's Birthday!

I had promised Tamarin that we would celebrate Shaggy's birthday on Valentine's day. Then we were all having a wonderful time spewing on Valentine's day. Tamarin reminded me that day that we were supposed to have Shaggy's birthday party and she has continued to remind me every day since. Finally today I consented. We started with a bath and trim for Shaggy. He had to look good on his birthday.

We made party hats and a cake for the dogs. The girls blew out the candle and had a ball feeding the cake to them.

I kinda threw some stuff together for the cake :) It almost held up like a cake, but not quite. The dogs enjoyed it though. If anyone wants the recipe just let me know, but I'm going to keep working on it.

Poor Shaggy was so confused. He is well trained to not eat the food in the house. I don't think he ate much of it, but Duke was happy to help.

I thought I would take advantage of the subject and talk about D again for Lemur. So we read some dog books.


Made a D for Dog while Tamarin read us Too Many Dogs.

Then I made them some dog ears and they spent the rest of the afternoon teaching each other tricks. So they said, what really happened is Tamarin telling Lemur what to do and Lemur being a accurate dog by not listening to a word she said.

They are now watching *D*umbo. We are cooking pizza (*D*ough) for dinner because that's what we do for all family birthdays. We also made one of *D*addy's favorite favorite *D*esserts (recipe below).

Pumpkin Bread
3 C sugar
3 1/3 C flour
1 t salt
1 t cinnamon
1 t nutmeg
2 t soda

1 C oil
4 eggs
2 C pumpkin puree
2/3 C water
1 t vanilla

Mix dry ingredients in one bowl, wet in another bowl. Combine the two. Add 1 cup pecans if you wish (I do). Cook at 350 for about 50 minutes, give or take. Makes 3 loaves.

Good day.