The facts:

1. Brady is obsessed with dogs

2. Costco is currently carrying a 4-pack of dog puppets for $8.00

3. Despite the fact that both his birthday and Christmas are coming up, daddy couldn’t make Brady un-hand the Costco dogs when we were there last Friday (“the poor kid never gets anything new”)

4. Brady is sweet and decided to share 1 puppy with each of his brothers (he kept 2…both named Sha Sha just like the dog he got on “good-bye paci day”)

5. The puppy puppets provided hours of entertainment and…also doubled as gloves (see previous post).

6. The boys stole my camera (see picture album at the end of this post)

First off, I somehow suggested that the boys make beds for their puppies out of old shoe boxes. Well…that obviously required pillows and blankets (declared Logan…who then asked if I could sew up some stuff for them). I think I managed to avoid that request until Saturday morning, but I do have like a bolt of white felt left from bowling pin costumes so…I made some quick bedding…which the boys colored.

Here is Aiden coloring his dog’s pillow before we stuffed it with strips of the white felt.

Logan’s finished pillow

Brady stuffing his pillow

Brady asked me to draw Toad from Mario on his pillow. When I was done, he said “it’s Toad dolphin”. I guess I didn’t get the feet quite right.

The boys and my camera (this is about 1/4th of the pictures that they took):