Packages NOT for Me???

Toys and cookies come in boxes, so of course I was REALLY excited when I saw this the other day. Yes...we had TWO packages at our door!!!

Much to my dismay, however, you know what I was told??? That little box on top had my allergy pills in it. Bleeeech!!! And the BIG box on bottom...you know what was in that one? Parts for our car!

Mom broke the little motor that works her car window. Her door was just lovely for a while until the parts came in. And if you look closely, you can see that she had packing tape holding the window up!


Anyway, the bottom line is that we had TWO BOXES at our door and the end result was NO TOYS for Buttons. Isn't that atrocious?! It's totally inhumane. Or something like that.

I think Mom got the hint that I was not a happy pup...not at all. So, she broke out a new toy from her secret stash! Yeah!!!

You remember the world's coolest neighbor who bought me toys to replace the not-a-doggy-toy one that I was playing with? Well this new toy is another one of the ones from our neighbor!


I started right in, squeaking away. (Yes, I may need a haircut soon...but let's not point that out to Mom...)


I got tired of Mom playing paparazzi, so I took the toy into my tent and I squeaked it in the tunnel.


Mom, of course, once again invaded the privacy of my princess tent...


Eventually I decided that I needed more room to play, so I came out of the tent via the tunnel.



And then I just plucked away in the middle of the living room.

So, I guess that worked out o.k. overall. We had two boxes...and Mom ended up getting her car window fixed and I ended up with a new toy. Of course it would have been better if I got more toys... Oh, well.

Packages in the Mail!

The other day, we got THREE packages in the mail!

You know what packages mean around here...TOYS!

One package had another pretty package inside it...

Look at the cool stuff! I won a pendant from my friend Marjorie during a Twitter party, but look at the cool cards and stationary she sent with it!

And do you see that pendant? It's got ME on it!

Mom tried to get a pic of me modeling the pendant, but I was a reluctant model. (OK, so I just really wanted to nap!)

So the cool stuff from Marjorie was in one package, but that leaves TWO more, right?! You know what was in them???

NOTHING! That's right. I got robbed. Both of those boxes had stuff in them for MOM. That's totally not fair.

I gave Mom my stink eye...

And I guess my look must have really helped because Mom felt bad and got a toy out of her secret stash for me!

I forgave her...

Box at the Door

I got in a little trouble tonight. I got all excited because there was a box at the door. You can even see my wet paw prints all over around the box. (My paws were drenched 'cause it's pouring down rain outside tonight.)

The reason I got in trouble, though, is the fact that the package was not at OUR door...

Mom said it was the neighbor's package, not ours. And apparently the neighbor probably wouldn't want me checking it out like I do. Oops...

Anipal Photo Hunt: Catching Up!

I discovered that I missed TWO of the Anipal Photo Hunt challenges. I didn't miss any of 'em before the Photo Hunt went on a break, and I sure can't end up behind now! So, I decided to catch up.

The first post I missed was with the theme "Mardi Gras." I don't have anything specifically "Mardi Gras," but I DO have a picture of me wearing some beads! They're Shibbering Cheetos Love Beads. I was rolling on some toys, too, so I was having fun. That counts as Mardi Gras, don't you think?!

The second Anipal Photo Hunt that I missed was "What the Heck Is That Thing?!" I went to my archives for this one, and I found TWO different things to use...

First, we got a box in the mail one day. You know what boxes have in them, right? TOYS! Not this one, though. It had something Mom called a "cake pan" in it. What the heck?!

My second "What the Heck Is That Thing?!" was when Mom's friend came to visit last year. This pile of blankets on our couch kept making noises and moving. I kept a close eye on it.

I had to figure out what was going on in those blankets!

Turns out it was Dallas, Mom's friend's doggy!

And NOW I'm all caught back up with the Anipal Photo Hunt!

It Ain't Adding Up

We got a box in the mail yesterday. You know what boxes have in them? Squeaky toys! And sure enough...Mom pulled this squeaky fishy out of the box and gave it to me.

But here's the problem...the box was WAY bigger than that fishy. I put the fishy on top of the box in the picture below, just for comparison. There HAD to be more than just that fishy inside that big box! I looked and looked...

and I looked and looked...

and looked some more...

But I couldn't find more toys. I know there had to be more toys in that box. So I gave Mom a dirty look.

I barked at her a bit, too.

The only saving grace here for Mom might be the fact that my birthday is in less than a month. Maybe, just maybe, there are a whole lot of squeakies in my future...

Thursday Torture

Got a box in the mail today...but there was a problem. Look what was in it!

No toys. No cookies. Just keep-fleas-away stuff! Isn't that terrible?! Mom says that I'll be happy to have that stuff when the weather gets warmer. I say BOO. If there's a box, it should have fun stuff in it! Not stupid flea medicines!

But the torture tonight didn't stop with the box of flea stuff...

Tomorrow is my 4-month Gotcha Day anniversary. Shouldn't that mean toys for me? Not according to Mom. She says that tomorrow is her birthday, so we are celebrating that instead. Then, she did THIS to ME:

How RUDE! I don't want to wear a stupid birthday party hat! I put up with it for a little while, but only because Mom distracted me with toys.

More toy distractions...

But it didn't take too long before I had enough of that stupid hat. So, I flung my head around.

At least the hat wasn't on top of my head anymore...

Stupid flea stuff and stupid party hat. Way to torture me, Mom. Totally ruined my Thursday!

Oh -- Mom learned a valuable lesson tonight. If she squeaks a toy over the camera to try to get me to look at the camera, then something like this can happen:

Nice action shot, huh? I just really wanted that toy!

More Mail!

Mom and I got a box in the mail this week. Well, Mom's name was on it, but I should have at least partial ownership of everything, right? And you know what comes in boxes...TOYS! And sometimes COOKIES, too!

So Mom opened the box and I dived in.

"Uh oh," I thought. "What is THIS?!" It certainly didn't look like a toy or cookie.

It turns out that the box had a cake pan in it. I guess that my little tiny people cousin is going to have a birthday soon, and Mom's gonna make his birthday cake. So my aunt shipped a cake pan to my Mom. How boring!

How the heck am I supposed to play with a cake pan?! I think the mail man should take it back and bring me some toys instead. That's how things are supposed to work around here, right?

DudeFest Prize!

The mail man brought a box to me this weekend. I gave it a good sniff. Yep -- this box was for me!

It was a prize that I won for my Mom at the DudeFest Party! The prize is a cool puppy dog plate donated by Maggie. Mom loves it, of course!

And I loved playing with the box! He he he.

Thanks for the cool plate, Maggie!

Someone Made a Mess

We had some boxes sitting over near our door so that Mom could take them outside to the recycling bins. They were neatly stacked up...and I mean they WERE stacked up. This is what they look like now:

I personally think that Mom is responsible for the mess. I mean, after all, why would I do something like that?! Since it's just the two of us living here, it just has to be Mom's fault.

Oh... I didn't know that Mom got photographic proof of my shennanigans. Oopsie...

See that huge bag of dog food by the boxes that I made a mess of? I had that half-way across the living room earlier, too. He he he! The bag's bigger than me, but don't worry -- it's empty. And it's pretty fun to drag around...

Bad Mom!

This "diet" thing really stinks. It's ridiculous! You know what Mom gave me tonight?

Did she give me bacon? Nooooo.

Did she give me cheese puffs? Nooooooo.

Did she give me French fries? Noooooooooooo.

She gave me a stupid CARROT! Bleeech!

And that's where the stupid carrot stayed. On the carpet. That's right...I spit the stupid thing out onto the floor. Absolutely absurd that she'd give me such a nasty thing. Bring me bacon!!!

And then you know what Mom did after she ate supper? She left me! That really horked me. (I don't know if that's a word, but it should be.) How rude! She gives me a stupid carrot and then she leaves for the evening?! Just who does she think she is?!

I suppose I should cut her some slack about that, though. She felt pretty bad about being gone and me being alone. In fact, she felt so bad that she brought me...a squeaky fishy!

It's super-duper squeaky, too. I was a squeaking maniac after I got that cool fishy! I played with it inside a box for a while. That was fun. (I'm a creative player.) I tried to play with the fishy in the garbage, but Mom got all horked at me for that. Oopsie. But she did let me play in this box.

Mom said that if I used that picture, then I had to explain that the mess all around me is just my toys and some blankies. I keep pulling toys out of my toy box. The toy box is behind the cardboard box I'm playing in. Yes, I'm messy. He he he.

Anyway...back to my fishy. I had to test out the nap-ability of the squeaky fishy. It scored well for napping.

So I guess I shouldn't be too mad at Mom. I mean, that is a pretty cool toy after all. I guess I can overlook the carrot incident.

Oh, wait... I just remembered something. Mom brought an egg home for me today. She saved it from her lunch just for me. Oopsie. Maybe I shouldn't have been horked... Shhh! Don't tell her I was mad about the carrot...