If Sammy were in Charge of the World

This is the text of an assignment Sammy had
If I were in charge of the world, I'd cancel:
waking up ele (early)
alarm cloks
hete indekis (heat indexes) over 90 degrees.
rpeding sons (repeating songs) over and over intl (until) they get anoying.
If I were in charge of the world, there'd be
pets in your Crimus (Christmas) stoking
playtime with your frens evreday
4 day wekins (weekends)
If I were in charge of the world, You wouldn't have
bad days
yuky things for diner.
skary wether news
Or ruls like "be qite (quiet)"
You wouldn't even have peple that drive you crazy.
If I were in charge of the world A box of choklis (chocolates) would be a vegetable.
All vary funy movies would be G.
And a person who sometimes forgot to wash and sometimes forgot to flaws (floss) would still be allowed to be In charge of the world.

Timmy

We have a new cat! We adopted Timmy yesterday. My allergies have already noticed! Timmy is about 4 months old, orange and white.

The Scott County Humane Society takes animals from the animal shelter (which euthanizes) and places them in foster homes. Then each Saturday they bring animals to the Pet Smart, which is where we went to check out the animals. We've been holding this over Charlotte as a reason she needs to be well behaved. This week, after our travel has been a real struggle for her! But we decided the timing was right, since I'll be available this week to enforce the house rules. So anyway, they had several kittens and a few older cats. They were all adorable and sweet, but everyone liked Timmy (in addition to other cats), so we went with Timmy. This was the name given by his foster family, but the girls weren't inclined to change it, so it has stuck so far. For some reason the name "Timmy Tiptoes" from the Beatrix Potter book keeps coming to mind for me, so I call him that.

His first evening we had the neighbors over so the house was a little crazy. I was worried this would stress him out, but he seemed to handle it well. When the last neighbor left, he went running from room to room, so I guess he noticed the difference! He has already found a favorite spot: the back of the couch. He also if fond of walking on the keyboard while we type. He's already litter trained and it really took very little effort to get him to find and use his box.

The girls have been handling him very well. At first Charlotte was a bit timid around him, but by the time we had him home, she was already trying to pick him up and turn his head so he could look at things!

Lazy days in PA

We had a great time visiting Peter's parents last week. It was all very relaxing and went very quickly. The weather was so perfect all week! On Tuesday, we visited Bushkill Falls, which Peter had been to back in school.

There were some lovely paths and waterfalls. At one point Peter and Sammy and Meghan decided to take a side path to visit some more falls while Baba Grampy and Charlotte headed back to the entrance.

After lunch, the girls went mining for gems. The gift shop sold bags of dirt with small stones (mostly quartz) strategically sprinkled in. Outside there was a fountain with water following a long chanel where the girls could sift through the dirt to find the "gems".

Thursday we went to Crystal Cave. We told the girls we were going "Spelunking". Charlotte liked this word so much that later when Peter was playing on the Wii later, she said, "That red guys a spelunker just like us!" The cave tour was about an hour. There were lots of formations that resembled food or animals, and were named after them. That was fun. They also turned off all the lights and showed us total darkness. The girls handled this well. The neat thing was that before turning on the lights, they showed us the level of lighting that the original spelunkers would have had. It's hard to imagine they could determine anything!

We also got to go out for our Anniversary on Saturday, which was a lot of fun. Meghan made a cheesecake, but we decided to eat it on Friday. Sammy for some inexplicable reason doesn't like cheesecake, so we made some Apple cobbler instead. It was good, but not as good as I hoped.

On the way, Charlotte kept singing "Old Man Tucker." She didn't know very much of it, but it made her want to sing the name game song. She asked me to sing it for. She would not be deterred. Fortunately, she didn't notice I kept omitting the "banana fana fo" line.