It's My Party And I'll Bark If I Want Too!

Noodles turns 14!  That's the equivalent of 88 human years!  Four years younger than our Grandma!  In some ways, our Grandma and Grandpa have had a harder go of it - someone always cooks for us and makes our bed for us and ensures we get lots of exercise and we never had to go to work to make the wheels go 'round.

 Noodles was kind of like greased lightning when Janet wanted to take her birthday photo.  Janet forced Phil to make the stupid ritual birthday cap that Janet thrives on and then put it on Noodles who couldn't shake it fast enough.

Noodles back end is really weak, but aside from that, she is in pretty good health.

We have a small mat in the kitchen now to enable Noodies to eat.  Her back legs splay out from underneath her on the slippery floor whilst she dines.

But never mind...look at how beautiful we are!  We had to go to the Doggie Beauty Parlour yesterday.  Janet said Noodles would never need to return as she took us last time and couldn't stand how upset Noodles was.    We were as dirty as could be, so she made Phil take us.  I gave Phil my "you can't be serious face" when he left, but he didn't look backwards.  Traitor!

Really pretty, right?

We had yet another huge windstorm.  This is about three in the space of a week.  Phil was out during the day and for the first time, Janet was actually nervous about how high the wind was.

This is BEFORE the winds got really high.  Janet went for a big walk whilst we were at the doggie torture chamber spa and she said she had to fight to walk straight.

This is the house directly across the street from our house.

Guess what?  The Christmas Janet said she wasn't throwing is actually back on her plate.  She swears up and down, come Hell of High Water, next year at Christmas she is in London.

First order of the day for next Christmas would be finding a venue that doesn't charge 80GBP/person for Christmas dinner.  That's $160 Canadian dollars!  The amount in GBP appears to be pretty common almost everywhere they were last month.

This ornament is Mr. Baby's hand prints when he was actually a Mr. Baby.  Look how Yaya's super gigantic hand measures up by comparison!

Do you think Yaya should investigate hand lift surgery?  Is there such a thing?

At Phil's badgering request, Janet made home made hot rum mix.  She said it smelled delicious.

This is a small reminder of the super expensive pre-made food store in the U.K.  It was Tourtiere at Janet and Phil's favourite butcher shop.

Ouch!

And, the Mr No Longer A Baby hits just keep on comin'!   Look what Janet found today in the cupboard where she keeps baking dishes....a bag of Annie's Bunnies!  It has been several weeks since Finley was here, but he is sweet enough to leave little momentos for his Yaya.

Wonder if his Mama wondered where the Annies Bunnies were?