Happy birthday you lil' beast. Only the naughtiest puppy to grace the planet. I can't believe you have been my 'dog'ter for 3.5 years now. You have turned my raven hair prematurely gray, given your Dad eczema and started arguments between your parents that were on the verge of leaving me a spinster. No one in the neighborhood will get near you but I still love you way too much to be healthy. You may be insane but I suppose I am too for keeping you around. Thanks for sitting in the vintage suitcase the other day, is that how you got here from Russia? You didn't look too happy about it but maybe that's because I pretended we were going on a walk so I could get your head to tilt to the side and then we didn't go anywhere. Mommies can be selfish like that sometimes. It's just that you do the cutest things and I want the world to see you like I do. I just wanted to say Happy Birthday, I know you don't have any sense of time but today is the day little lady you are four and no you can't eat any neighbors. I know I am such a mean mommy...

