book report

dear diary,
yippee, mom n dad took me to the nature park yesterday and it was super fun! butchoo know what? we got home kind of late and wouldn'tchoo know that our netflix was acting up so i could not watch the romeo n juliet movie that i was counting on to 2 watch so i could do my book report? so then duk duk thought maybe we could find something else 2 watch instead that might be close but then lil pink puppy would not give up the tv remote and when i finally got a hold of it the remote was stuck and the channels kept changing back and forth and there wasn't much time left before bedtime so i watched what i could and, well, if i do say so myself,  i think i did a very good job with my book report and i bet teacher will not notice at all that i did not read romeo n juliet.  especially since i wrote my report in pen and included some drawings - methinks i will get extra credit for that too!

anyhoo, i must go and find a nice plastic binder for my report so i can turn it in today, but i thought i would share a copy of it here 4 u diary, cuz i know u would want to read my masterpiece.  i hope u r having a wonderful monday!!

toodley-doo!
b. :) :)

short story long

dear diary,
so diary, u know how lil pink puppy spilled a monkey chow milkshake all over our wii and how it went kablooey shortly thereafter and how we kinda left it in the laundry room to dry since it was rainy out all that week and how we sorta got in trouble cuz we didn't tell mom and after a week the laundry room smelled like we played a guess whose foofie game in there even though we didn't but we were playing that game only we were playing upstairs and then mom  sniffed us out and us to stop but our wii was still all crusty and kablooey? well after we decided to pool together all the glitter and kibble and worms that we were saving from our flaming headless pumpkin robot project, we finally had enough to take the wii to the fixit shop, and so it is still there and we could not play with the wii this weekend and so me and duk duk decided to ask mom if she would buy us a unicycle and two helmets and after she said no and after we asked her if duk duk could use her sewing machine to make parachutes for lil pink puppy and chocobot while i set up the diving board off the deck and after she said no to that, well, i guess asking mom if i could go down the slide at the playground didn't seem like such a big deal. and so u guessed it - i did! with a little help from my mom of course.  but next time methinks i will bring scooby doo cuz he would be much more super slidey slipperiffic and then i could just ride him down like a surfboard and then mom could even take pictures! 

anyhoo, diary, today i have to study for my vocabulary quiz and write a book report on a book i have not read yet.  and u know what that means.  i sure hope they have romeo n juliet on netflix!

toodley-doo!
b. :)

chewbaxtah

i bring u sticky sticky, but me chewy chewy!
- baxter, 4.8 years old, on describing yesterday's fetch and chew playbreak. :)

cute is all u need :)

I'm not exactly sure how to explain it, but there are some days I've noticed when it seems the little kielbasa wakes up with an extra helping of fuzzy faced cuteness.  When he wakes up, quietly radiating a sunshiney glow,  that draws me to him like a moth to light. 

For tiny chumley, I am sure to him it is just another day.  But for me, I am lost in wonderland. Captivated by cuteness, and charmed by his innocence and optimism. Beguiled his velvety soft ears and pinkety pink belly, and his little short legs and long, sausagey body.

Please, baby dog, roll on over.  There's a tummy I need to rub.  :)



  

dapper doxie duds: jasper the friendly pup's playduds and retro gent duds

Yippee, today a peekypoo at the happy little pair of duds I finished yesterday for Jasper, whose mom knew that all work and no play makes Jasper a dull boy.  Which is why methinks her special little boy not only will have a nice new dapper retro happy little gent dud complete with removable vintage silk bowtie, but also a cheery owl dud made from fabric picked especially by his mom for her sweet little boy, all in colors that will complement his light and lovely complexion.

tiny chumley, of course, was happy to help model Jasper's duds, working for his usual little itty bitty smidgens of snackies until his nose found out he could do better.

wooty hoo! wooty hoo! look at me i'm an owl! wooty hoo! hey wait...
is that a snackie i smell? in a snackie pocket??

baby dog, you can only look right now.  we have to take pictures.



ooookay mom....

.....but maybe just...one....lick. :)

migration theory

o mister turtle,
is it warm where u are now?
say hi to the birds. 


- baxter, 4.8 years old, on having not seen  he not seen mister turtle for weeks, and wondering if turtles migrate south on the backs of birds for the winter. :)

pup in boots

mom says it is too muddy for me to go outside and dig, but i say, can somebuddy help me put on my boots so i can go out n play? :)

- baxter, 4.8 years old, on making do with the temporary changes to his yard now that the lawn has been reseeded.

a boy and his george

Baxter's little heater friend George made his first appearance of the season yesterday, humming quietly on lo while tiny chumley abandoned his kitty perch in favor of George's newly formed tropical microclimate.

mom, promise me you'll wake me up if see somebuddy walking by that needs barking at, okay?? my baby friend asked as he nestled into his bed.

Of course, I said with a wink as pulled a down blankie gently over his sausagey body. :)

so happy 2 c u!

Tiny chumley is a often blurry kong toy carrying rocket when we return home from errands and he has been left home alone.  Racing down to first greet me then circling back to get his kong toy and the goodbye snackie he apparently saved to eat when we came back. 

wheeeeeeeeee! everybody's home! everybody's home!  wheeeeeeee! his happy little wiggly body will then declare as lucky charms and clovers and bits of fairy dust stir up in his wake, til finally he collides into me and we catch up on all the kisses and hugs that we missed for having been apart in his mind for so very long.

mom did u know i barked at three dogs while u were gone? and i saw not one but two squirrels running across the street?  and didjoo know that the mail lady drives away whether u bark at her or not?  but i barked at her anyway just to make sure she knew i saw her.  and didjoo get me anything? and may i have another snackie? not my kibble but a really fishy snackie u know?oh where's duk duk? i think he was reading upstairs. u want i should get him and we can all snuggle on the sofa together? 

Why yes babydog, I'll tell him as I get back up to dry myself off from our rather licky conversation.

Home, I am always reminded,  is where the wiener dog is. :)

it's not my birthday so i'll poot if i want to

Yippee! Even though IKEA has yet to restock the shelving I so desperately need to make the makey life a little easier,  it's been a crafty week.  Today, a peekypoo at a very special birthday hat that Ammo's mom commissioned for her amazing little boy . Can u say birthday party? 

ooo, mom! ammo's birthday is really soon. do u think they need monkey chow milkshakes for it?  cuz methinks if i start making them now duk duk can fly it up just in time to play pin the foofies on the puppy!! :)

Well baby dog, I'm not sure everybuddy likes to play that game but you can always wish him a happy birthday.


oooh, okay! happy happy birthday soon ammo!! :)

party poopered

(sniff sniff..sniff sniff sniff)

hee hee hee, (sniff sniff) oooh,  fruity.. (sniffy sniff) with slight hints of glitter - green i think - and monkey chow and, wait,..

(sniff?) is that jelly bean?  no, no, wait, more circusy...hmmmm.... ooo - cotton candy!  i guess chocobot!

hee hee okay u go now chocobot..

now remember chocobot, with lil pink puppy out of the game now it's best 6 out of 7. wait'll i get my mask on and i will tell u when u can go, okay?

(fweeeeeeeeet!)

pheeeew! real funny. i said wait!

(muffled) okay let er rip!

(fwEEEee-eeeee--EEeeee-EEEEeee-eeet!)

HEEE hee hee hee hee hee hee - uh oh wait.

yes mom?

Baxter Babydog, I hope you and your toyfriends aren't playing that awful guess whose foofie game up there.  Is that why you wanted me to make you green beans and cabbage for dinner last night?

uh...no mom?

Well whatever you are doing up there stop. You're making the chandelier shake.

(sigh)

okay mom.

(blink....blink)  (blink)

(pfwee!)

(blink)

(foop foop foop!)(pssssssh!) (pshooooooo!)

ooo - anybuddy wanna go outside and make poopie snakes with us? :)

dapper doxie duds: blues clues

Hello! My name is Baxter your roving reporter reporting to u today after wrapping up my modelling shoot for my mom's latest dapper doxie dud for my friend and Annie's new chocolatey dapple brother Blue.  Pardon the voiceover, cuz I am still a little nakey cuz mom hasn't put my collar back on. But in the meanwhile I thought U might enjoy seeing what Blue looks like.  Blue was adopted back in March but he was so skinny that his mom decided he needed a little fattening up before my mom made him his dud, and lo and behold he is just perfect now and now he has his very own dud!

Mom says his duds were made with neckties from all sorts of different decades, going as far back as the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s and into the present.  I say, I think this will look swell on Blue, dontchoo?

Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed my report as much as I am enjoying my itty bitty snackie! This is Baxter your Roving Rover Reporter wishing U a very happy happy Thursday!! :)

i remember

Rain fell gently outside when we read the news.

mom... will i ever see twix again? i didn't even get to say goodbye.

Well babydog.  I think so.

and maggie? and jeeves?

Yes, babydog.  You will see them, too.  But hopefully, that won't be for a very very very long time.

but if i won't see them for a very very very long time, how can i make sure i will still know them when i see them?

Well babydog, I suppose you'll have to find a way to keep them in your heart and  remember all of them.

oooooh...... you know,  teacher said if we say things out loud it will help us remember.  do you think that might work, mom?

Why yes, baby dog, I think that's a very good start.

i remember digger and kep and padua. and i remember jeeves.  and  i remember maggie  and  miss edith and allie and lulu's dad mister tom. and i remember twix. 

they might be giants

Yeah, somebuddy needed a bath after stumbling across this great find in our backyard.   but mooooom, i still haven't figured out what's down there yet. what if there are trolls down there, or monsters???

nice try

dear mrs teacher,
please excuse baxter poopie bottoms from school today.  as u can see he is not feeling very well and neither is duk duk the magnificent.  please do not bother calling me with their assignments today because i am sure they will catch back up upon their return. though i cannot guarantee baxter's butt will be any less stinky.

thank u for understanding and if u would, please send lil pink puppy home early so he can finish decrusting our wii.

yours truly,
mrs baxterpoopiebutt and duk duk's mom

etsy fresh: happy homieween!

dear diary,
yesterday mom said if duk duk and i helped her load new paper goodies to etsy then we could earn seventy-five cents each and of course we said heck yeah because duk duk said that would get us at least halfway to our flaming headless pumpkin project fundraiser goal.  or wait, did he say that it would hardly buy us even half a pumpkin?  anyhoo, seein's how our wii went kablooey cuz lil pink puppy spilled monkey chow milkshake on it yesterday morning while he n chocobot were playing barbie barbie sparkle revolution and we had to wait for it to dry, it seemed like sumptin fun to do anyway cuz it was kinda rainy most of the day and my poopies were a little loosey goosey which is more than i know u might want to know diary but it will become important very soon i promise. 

so anyhoo, i am so glad to have helped mom cuz looky - halloween will soon be here and now there is a card for all the snoop doggs and their homies out there.  fo shizzle doggie dizzle!

and every homie wants to celebrate thanksgiving right? especially when there is so much to be thankful for.  like, the rawhide. mmm, especially the rawhide.  and sometimes with all the talk about turkey n stuffing, moms and dads forget about this most very important tummy yummy detail so not only can my homies send sunshine with this card but it remind them about the rawhide, u know?

so anyhoo that was mostly my afternoon but u remember diary how i said my poopies were a little loosey on the goosey yesterday morning? well wouldn'tchoo know that i got my own special package of sunshine in the mail from miss kimberly and i could tell it had something extra extra yummy in it and i started to open it and everything but because my tummy was a little rumbly in the wrong sort of way, i had to say boo hoo cuz mom put it up but i am hoping that everything will be better today and so i can say yay and thank u very very much miss kimberly! :)


well diary, i best go now and see if the wii is dried out so me n duk duk can play some mario kart before lil pink puppy n chocobot wake up.

toodley-dizzley doo!
b. :)

plan b

dear diary,
this year me n duk duk thought it would be cool to build a flaming headless pumpkin robot for halloween but wouldntchoo know we would need like a hundred pumpkins and wouldntchoo know that mom says we have to buy all the pumpkins ourselves and wouldntchoo know that all the pumpkins at the grocery store cost like three dollars each?  that's like a whole year's snackie allowance just for one!  not to mention it would be a lot of trips to the grocery store since really me n duk duk could only take home one at a time in my pedal car and that would only be if somebuddy helps us load the pumpkin in the car after somebuddy lets us pay for the pumpkin in snackies. or poopie snakes -  which would be their choice, of course. 

but anyhoo, mom said there might be some chores we could help her with to earn real money for our project and so maybe if we are lucky i will get to tell u more about that 2morrow. but in the meantime diary, i wanted to wish u a very happy saturday!

toodley-doo!
b. :)

dapper doxie duds: happily ever after

Yippee! Today a sneaky peeky at some duds finished just in time for  Bogey and Remy to attend the third annual Stafford Oktoberfest Wiener Dog Race in royal style. First up, and modelled by tiny chumley, Bogey's turquoise and scarlet cape, made with rich shimmery velvet and complete with bullion embroidered kingly crests and antiqued brass chain.

mom, how come i don't have one of these?

And next up, everyone knows a knight needs a suit of armor.  But you say he has to race, too? No worries, cuz this is a faux chainmaille and studded leather harness and collar, sleekly cut and bound in tropical weight charcoal gray wool so Bogey can race like the wind.


oooh leather studded dud and collar? mom, how come i do not have one of these either??

And for the little princess Remy? A tiara, of course, and sparkly hand sequined and beaded and lace appliqued removable butterfly wings.  To match her gilded lace and pleated jacquard ribbon harness, bound in  turquoise silk dupioni. And to match her removable ballgown skirt.  Because princess butterflies need to race too

.

moooom, sparkly turquoise sequin and lace and beaded butterfly wings? and a removable ballgown skirt?  

mom promise u will make me something soon?
yes baby dog, i promise. but first help me clean up all the beads and sequins off the floor?

yep and yippee!! :) :)

my wooty wednesday

dear diary,
yippee! even though mom's studio is not back in order,  mom said since these past few days have been so gray n cloudy that maybe we could make a little sunshine of our own by opening one of the packages that came for us while she was gone and guess what -  she was right! cuz looky - i helped open a package from miss amy and jasper and not only did  it have jasper's fit model but it had tons of stuff just 4 me !! mom said i was beaming so much she almost had to put her sunglasses on.  i said, i wish she did because then maybe she would have been so busy she would not have noticed me trying to snitch a snackie before i took my thank u picture. 

anyhoo, i am so excited about my goodies, i think i will bring them to show n tell 2morrow - okay well maybe not the snackies cuz teacher says we have to share what we bring, but definitely my new toy because we can take turns playing tug o war! which teacher i am sure will like better than the guess whose foofie game she made us stop playing yesterday on account of how dizzy we were all getting from all those doozies.  methinks teacher does not understand that that getting dizzy is all part of the fun!

thank u so much miss amy n jasper! :)

toodley-doo!
b. :) 

what are little boys made of?

little webbed toes and dirty dog nails. :)