Happy Belated Birthday, Little Q Man!

OK, OK, I'm a bad horse mom. I missed Quattro's birthday - for some reason I had it in my head that it was March 11 but it was the 3rd. So this is just to apologize and wish him a happy one!

He did get presents - actually we both did; he got new feeties from my fabu farrier and I got his papers. Which makes this an opportune time to give a huge shoutout to Kiersten and to all at Hallston Manor for helping this little guy find me! We're going to have some fun, and hopefully we'll make you proud.

Happy birthday, Quattro. You're a good pony, I'm very pleased with you. You have many more birthdays to look forward to, and it's a funny thing about horse birthdays: the older you horses get, the better the birthday parties get! By the time you're about 12, you'll be getting the ragin' full-on, invite everybody in the neigh-borhood, stuff your face with carrot cake, lick frosting off your whiskers, wear a crown (thank you, Burger King!) while all the Twolegs have to wear stupid birthday hats and sing to you kind of party. But I've got to be honest with ya, Q - you kind of have to EARN that kind of party. You're only just getting the idea that there is such a thing as work - even if your Twolegs is sorta good at making it seem like more dumb human games. Sometimes, because you're the horse, you DO have to do stuff you don't really want to, or aren't really sure about. But if you do all these things cheerfully and do them all well, then come one birthday in the future, you WILL get to wear the crown and eat the carrot cake and get nice pressies like 'spensive blankies imported from England in your favorite colors with your name on them. (Yes, I admit, I was scoping them out last night!)

You keep doing as well as you're doing, and you can look forward to lots of rockin' birthday parties in the future.

Loff,
Your Human