Carnival

Mardi Gras is in full swing here in Alabama.  We look forward to the fun, festivities and moon pies every year!  Last Saturday we joined some friends for the MMOR parade in Fairhope.  The Mystic Mutts of Rivalry is a walking dog parade and one of the more fun ones to take Grant to.  Dog Lovers unite and dress their beloved companions up in their best Mardi Gras flair.  We first took Grant to this parade in 2010, you can check that experience out HERE.  The parade did not dissapoint, Grant caught tons of loot and moonpies for Mommy and he even got to hang out with his gal pal, Chatam.

Grant and I with close friends, Joni and Chatam waiting for the parade to start!

 and now I'll let the mutts steal the show...

 This year's theme was "The Wizard of Pawz."  The black poodle in front was dressed as Dorothy and even had on a braided pigtail wig, it was darling!  Do you spot the wicked witch and tinman?

 Ballerina Lab

 Daddy helped Grant get a better view of the puppy dogs

 I loved this little guy

 Grant really excited about that little maltese in the corner that came over and gave him a lick!

 This dog sported the collapsed Wicked Witch of the West on his back

 Joni's hubbie caught this shot of us watching the parade

 This bull mastif was larger than life and made quite the appearance in his tutu

 And if one parade wasn't enough, we stuck around to catch the Knights of Ecor Rouge parade later that evening.  We were joined by even more friends and enjoyed floats that were modeled after the theme, "Giants."  Clifford the big red dog, Jolly the green giant, Eli Manning and the Giants football team were some of the floats that passed us by, sorry for not having any photos of this one.  Left my camera in the car by accident.  The two below are curtesy of Joni.

 Grant enjoying cheese puffs before the parade started up.

 Just wanted to share this little cute story before I leave you... the other morning Grant was digging through a kitchen drawer and discovered a sucker!  He begged and begged me to let him eat it.  I repeated over and over that he had to finish his breakfast before Mommy would let him have this sucker.  A little later, I went into my room to get dressed, he came in a few minutes after me and proudly boasted his empty cereal bowl with the sucker in his other hand.  "Look Mom, all Gone!"  I knew better and said "Grant, Where did you put your cereal?"  He said, "I threw it in the trash!"  At least at this age, he's honest!

 This is the trash can from the upstairs bathroom I had just brought down and emptied and also where he decided to discard of his breakfast!  Pretty smart, huh?