when i went to wake holden up on his birthday, i was greeted by a smiley fellow all covered in poo.
lovely.
what a nice way to ring in his new year.
needless to say, his birthday started off with a bath.
.. and it ended in the bath too.
but for a much more pleasant reason.
the second time around, he was covered in cake and frosting.
holden's birthday was really low-key.
we spent most of the day outside. went on some walks. played at the pool.
when holden napped, chet and i put up some streamers and wrapped the presents.
and when matt got home we had a little celebration.
it was fun to watch holden dig into his cupcake.
he didn't mind getting messy.
and he thought it was pretty tasty.
so did tank.
it is times like that when i am so grateful i have a dog.
70% of holden's cupcake ended up on the floor, but i didn't have to clean up one stitch.
i turned my back for 5 minutes and tank had taken care of every crumb.
sure, eating large amounts of chocolate cake isn't ideal for a small dog,
but he was happy and i was happy.
so i'm gonna say it was worth any heath risks.
i am actually thinking i should start up a business where i rent out dogs to clean up crumbs at functions. it's genius, i know.
part of me feels guilty that we didn't put together a more elaborate shindig for holden's birthday, but then i look at holden and realize that he does not care.
all he wanted to do was eat some cake and some wrapping paper.
and we let him do both.
so he was one very happy birthday boy.
[don't worry.. this is the cake bath!]
