Another year, another puppy party… we celebrated LP’s 5th birthday yesterday! Tomorrow is the actual day and we’ll have family celebrations and also her long awaited trip to the toy store to buy a gumball. (About 2 years ago, I randomly answered that she could have a gumball from the machine there when she was 5 and she has remembered that and reminded me of it often!). This year the party was expanded from just dog friends to include a couple of kid friends too which is a lovely sign of social growth.
We set up a dog house door to her room:
(These days LP’s dog name is “Skits” a la Martha Speaks books/tv show)
and puppy crowns for kid friends (the dog friends were “bring your own ears”):
The 20 “bones” were ready to be hidden for “find the bone” game in our yard:
The dog books were ready for story time:
With dog music playing on the ipod, we were ready. 4 kids, 3 dogs and 7 big people partied it up puppy style. A gift of a hula hoop gave the kids some new dog games to play (none of the dogs were into it). It was a lovely mix of free play with LP’s toys and organized “puppy” activities of finding the felt bones hidden around the yards, a low key version of “puppy says” (a la Simon says), singing the one dog song I learned on the ukelele (“I Wanna Be a Dog”) and (my favorite) acting out a made-up story about a teeny, green dog named Chicken Chicken Chicken who went exploring underground to find a treasure of delicious bones.
And of course, ice cream with dog bone sugar cookies:
At the end of the day, LP was one tired, happy pup….and so was her mama.
