Chanel's 2nd Birthday

My birthday was on September 2nd, and I was 2 years old! Mummy says that means I’m almost a grown-up now! I’m not sure what she meant by that, though. Like, is there something I have to stop doing, or something I have to start doing, or some way I’m supposed to think about the world around me? I guess I’ll find out soon enough, so I won’t worry about it. I’m not really a worrier, anyway. My goal in life is to have a good time, and I don’t think that’s going to change. Mummy says that’s always been her ambition too, and she hasn’t changed even though she’s MUCH older than I am!!

We really celebrated my big day, too!! Mummy told me how important my birthday is, because if it weren’t for my birthday, I wouldn’t be here! First thing we did was get the birthday cakes. I would have been quite happy with the Dairy Queen ice cream log, but Mummy insisted on getting me a real doggie birthday cake. It was a brown layer cake in the shape of a heart, with a little round liver treat on top, and it sure was delicious! We went down to Auntie Moira’s place and got Taffy and Moira to help us eat the goodies. Mummy even put 2 pink candles on one of the cakes. She said she would have put them on MY cake, but it was too hard to get the candles into it, so she put them on the ice cream instead.

After we wore Auntie out, Ciera and I got to go to the beach and strut around. I was wearing my red and white party collar, which looked really great with my red bow and red leash. A lot of people stopped to admire me and say, “Happy Birthday”.

We watched a lot of big dogs running around on the beach and swimming after logs and frisbees their parents threw for them. I have a frisbee too, but I don’t like to get my feet wet. In fact, I don’t like to play fetch very much, either. What I like to do with a frisbee is bring it back near Mummy, but not too close, and then wrestle her for it!! We have lots of fun doing that! We go eyeball to eyeball and growl at each other.... and I think I win more than she does!

Anyway, we weren’t playing frisbee on Thursday, so when I met a Havanese puppy who was in the same mood as I, we had a great time chasing each other around, growling and jumping on each other!! It was lots of fun!

 

 

Ciera was with us, but she never plays. She’s too old, but Mummy says Ciera has never played with a toy in her entire life!! That’s hard to believe! I wonder what she did for all those years, if she never played?? It must have been really boring!

Today, when we went for our first walk, which is always around the block, we came across Uncle Angus, who lives there. He was really happy to see me, and I was just as happy to see him. He even decided to walk with us the rest of the way around the block. He just broke up with his girlfriend, and I think he’s lonely and hurting, so we were glad to cheer him up.

He says he wants to go for more walks with us..... He even tells Mummy how good looking she is, but he’s way younger than she is!! Maybe he thinks she’s rich – hahaha!! Besides, Mummy isn’t very good looking now, because she had a big skin cancer taken off her nose, and it’s still bruised and swollen!! Yuk!!

Later on, we went to the beach again. We never get tired of it, because we always meet lots of other dogs there! Lots of other nice people, too. And tonight, we went for a walk on the Seawalk with Auntie Debbie and Bubbles. Ciera is getting used to me at long last – after 5 1/2 months! She has touched noses with me a couple of times in the last week, and even smelled my bum today!

Trouble is, her mum is coming home from Europe on Tuesday and wants her back. Ciera doesn’t know that yet, though, because she’s deaf. Mummy says Ciera will be really glad to see her mum and dad, even though she hasn’t seen them in such along time. I just don’t know if she’ll be glad when she gets home, and I’m not there.

Actually, I’m not sure if I’ll be glad to get rid of her or not, either. She’s no fun, but I’m kind of used to her company. It’ll be weird being the only dog: getting to sleep on the pillow beside Mummy if I feel like it, not having Ciera eat my food before I get a chance at it, not having to wait all the time when we’re out walking, for Ciera to catch up..... I think I might find myself looking around for her and making sure she’s OK. She can’t see very well, either.....

But, right now, we’re all OK. Ciera is already asleep on the pillow, and the crickets are chirping away outside our window. I’M just waiting for Mummy to turn out the lights, and I can settle in beside her.

Talk to you again soon....