coops, Mallory

Happy Birthday Coops!

Last year when we got close to Cooper’s birthday, I told Mallory we could do a dog-safe cake for him. We got busy and it didn’t happen in 2011. I knew I couldn’t not do it again this year, so we made Coops a peanut butter-carrot-honey-egg cake (with cottage cheese frosting).

Mallory did the garnishes with the cut up carrots. She wanted to use seven candles, but I didn’t really want to use our fancy cake candles in this gross cake, so we went with a single orange twirly candle (to match the orange carrots). It was almost as though Cooper knew we were making something for him – he’s usually pretty close to the kitchen, but I think the smell of the peanut butter (which we don’t use much) kept him close. It was pretty funny.

Mallory told us about a million times that she would blow out the candle for Cooper because dogs can’t blow out candles. She was SOOO excited about Cooper’s cake, and Carson was marching around the house in his sweatshirt and boxers, saying “HAPPY BIRFDAY COOPS!!!”

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Waiting very patiently for Mallory to step away from the cake. Even then he didn’t think it was OK to eat his cake…he took a lap around the plate and wouldn’t start eating until I told him “OK”.

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After I realized that he was going to lick all the cottage cheese off before he was going to actually eat the cake, I cut him a piece and put it on another plate for him to eat. He ate it in one gulp.

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Mallory  just told me: “I hope Cooper doesn’t throw it up”.

Me too, sister.