Dear Dadd-n

I sure miss you. Mom said you got stuck in Denver and you're probably tired and you shoulda just stayed an extra day if only we'd known, but we didn't and if we had we wouldn't have made you late to the airport anyways, but I wish you were here. Tonight Grandma gave me a bath and I gave 'er a real hard time because she wasn't you and Mom said I was a handful but I know I'm bigger 'n that already, so I don't know what she meant except that grandpa held me in his lap tonight and let me drink iced tea out of his glass but then he got himself another glass because he said I backwash. What's backwash? We watched part of the Pirates who Don't Do Anything and I liked it except for the scary cheese nip thingys. Mom closed her eyes then, but she was laughing and I laughed too, but I don't know what was so funny and what's a cheese nip? We had pasghetti for dinner and grandma made it with lots of garlic and onion and when mommy kissed me good-night I could still smell the pasghetti, but grandma smelled like chocolate chip cookies because she made 'em and we ate 'em and boy were they good - so good that I climbed into grandma's lap to eat hers but she didn't wanna share but later when I climbed into grandpa's lap I fell outta his lap and Mom said I landed on my head poor baby, but I meant to do it and grandma said, he's okay he rolled out of it and Nellie was prob'ly laughing at me 'cause she doesn't like me and she wanted me to get hurt and go back to where I came from but I like her just fine because she makes me laugh so hard when I throw her ball at her and she growls and runs after it. Ally's pretty good too but she doesn't chase the ball she just does some tricks when Mommy uses sign so I threw her half of my bagel at breakfast and grandma laughed and gave me cheerios instead which was good cause I like cheerios too, and Ally shouldn't get too conscious about her weight like when Mom says she's a fat girl I feel sorry for her because she's smaller than me and she just wants to sleep all day. I went outside today too but it was hot and my feet got hot on the concrete and grandma held me but I wanted to go in the grass only it was itchy so we went inside instead and grandpa got me up from my nap before I even fell asleep so it was a really good day.
I love you.

Luke