Peanut and I walked to the mail box to see if there was anything interesting. Actually, I walked and Peanut did his little run and jump... And what do you think we found? There waiting for Peanut was a birthday present from Bronson and Alec, his best friends!! I carried the mail but Peanut put up a fuss for his present.

"Let me open my present, please." he said.

"Okay," I told him and he grabbed it with his mouth and started shaking it!

"Peanut, you don't have to kill it," I said. Bulldogs like to shake things just to make sure that they are 'dead'... Peanut got the end of the package open and out popped a fuzzy rope!

"Oh boy! I got a fuzzy rope! Just what I wanted." he said.

Peanut pulled and pulled on the fuzzy rope and out jumped the funniest monkey that he had ever seen!

"It's a monkey! It's a monkey!" barked Peanut. And he took his new monkey to his favorite hiding place to play. He was having so much fun, I hated to call him in for supper.

"Time to go up, Peanut. Bring your new monkey and show everyone," I said.

So Peanut went around the house showing his beautiful birthday present to Sleepy and her new puppies, to Amber and to Juliet but not her puppies ("They're too little," he said.) He let Sugar hold the monkey for just a minute. Then he took it and showed Kate, Sweet T. Pie, JEB, and the rest of the bulldogs that sleep in the house.

"Do you want to sleep with your new toy tonight?" I asked Peanut.