Celebrating Soba's One Year Birthday

We celebrated Soba's birthday by passing out pupcakes to him and his friends. As you can imagine, he gulp down the treat like he was in heaven. Here are a few pictures we took.


This picture is dedicated to Soba's cousin, Andrew.













Doesn't this pupcake look so delicious? Well, it is! The boy dogs got chocolate ones while the girl dogs got pink ones.









Here is Soba enjoying his pupcake.










Yikes! He is devouring it!

Happy Birthday Soba!

Soba is ONE year old today!!! We have delayed his birthday celebration until this weekend. It is amazing to see him grow from a small pup to a full grown dog. We can't imagine our life without him.

Here is what Soba taught us in the last year:

• Patience. I have little patience period. At times, the little critter would test our patience to the limit. However, I must admit it is good training for when we have kids.
• Exercise. Wade and I walk him at least 2 times a day. We benefit from the exercise too.
• Laughter. We learnt to laugh more. It is the little things he does like pounce at his toy hippo.
• It is ok to be a little messy. I'm a neat freak. It use to bother me when I see dirt on our hardwood floor. After having Soba, I have relaxed a bit. It is ok to have dog hair on the floor, and not vacuum until tomorrow. Having a little dirt around won't kill me.
• Avoid dark color anything. I stopped buying black or brown pants, blankets, shorts, etc. Dog hair shows up too easily.

Happy Birthday SOBA!

Lounging

Apparently, Soba is enjoying the patio furniture more than we are. It looks like we are living in his house rather than he in ours.

While getting ready, Wade looked outside of our bathroom window and saw this. This explains why this particular ottoman was so dirty the other day. Yeesh!

Happy Birthday Bailey!

It was Bailey's birthday on Sunday. Her parents passed out cookies to the other dogs in the neighborhood. Soba got one too! He devoured it after I gave it to him!!! Thank you for the yummy cookie!

Tantrums

We didn't realize that dogs throw tantrums too when they are not happy. So, here is what happened...

I went out to see a movie with friends while Wade purchased a car unexpectedly the last minute. So, in order to get the good price on the car, he needed to go in to sign the paper work. We thought it wouldn't take that long, but the both us didn't get home until 3 hours later around10pm. In the meantime, we left the Sobster in the backyard.

To show his anger with us, he was not his usual happy self when he sees us with his tail wagging and ears back. Instead he barked at us. If that wasn't enough, he took his anger out on his food bowl earlier (see below). We ended playing with him for a few minutes. Afterwards he was content and then passed out on the floor.

Who knew dogs can throw tantrums like little kids!