His Dogness

Dear Diary,

This morning, the first thing that Doobins ate was a Reese’s cup. It was one of the little ones, not one of the big ones. It was the first thing that Momma and I ate, too. After that, I fixed a bowl of diamond cereal with milk and Doobins got a vanilla yogurt drink out of the refrigerator.

Vanilla is the only flavor that he likes. I like vanilla and strawberry and blueberry but he just likes vanilla.

After he took his first sip of his yogurt drink, he said it tasted funny. Momma said maybe it tasted funny because he had just eaten a Reese’s cup. He said maybe he should eat another Reese’s cup and see if the next sip of his yogurt drink tasted funny, too.

Momma said that she didn’t think so. I said that my cereal tasted just fine.

After breakfast, I went over to Mimi’s house. We decided to put on some plays with her puppets.

We stood behind the bushes by her patio and stuck our arms up over the bushes to do the shows for her Mommie and Daddy.

In one of the plays, I was the Lazy Crocodile. Mimi had two parts. With one hand, she was the tiger. With the other hand, she was the leopard. The tiger and the leopard came down to the river to get a drink of water. When the Lazy Crocodile saw them, he went over to eat them.

They ran away. The Lazy Crocodile chased them. But he didn’t go very far because because he was lazy and they were fast. Instead, he ate some of the leaves off the bushes.

“That certainly wasn’t very substantial,” he said and went back to lie down.

“The end,” we said.

Mimi’s Mommie and Daddy clapped.

After I went home, I sat down at the kitchen table to draw a picture of the Lazy Crocodile play. In the play, the leopard and tiger ran away. But in the picture, I put them on a hill laughing at the crocodile eating leaves.

Doobins ran into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.

“Are there any more vanilla yogurt drinks?” he said.

I didn’t say anything because he was looking in the refrigerator and I was sitting at the table drawing. So he could tell better than me whether there was a vanilla yogurt drink in the refrigerator.

“Good, there’s one more,” he said. “If there hadn’t been one, I would have had to say, ‘Rats!'”

I said that I was glad that he didn’t have to say, “Rats!” and went back to my drawing. I decided to put a beach umbrella in the picture because it seemed like something the Lazy Crocodile would have.

Signed,
Sparkle Girl