Last Saturday, Tom went on the Berry Creek Falls trail up in Big Basin with about 50 of his PCP students. Since, it’s an 11-mile hike, Dylan and I had to opt out (but because Dylan wanted to go hiking, too, the three of us went on an itty bitty, teeny weeny hike the next day on a trail behind Harvey West Park — hence the picture!); the good thing was that we could sleep in a little.
As soon as Dylan woke up, though, the first words he uttered were, “where’s Gallagher?” I was completely confused.
Me: Who?
Dylan: Gallagher. (Pause)
Dylan: Gallagher’s my new cat….(Pause — we were both still waking up!)
Me: …you have a new cat…?
Dylan:Yeh
Ahhh, so that explained it! We spent a few minutes more discussing Gallagher before Dylan hopped out of bed to go “look for him.” He finally located him on the bed and invited me to pet him (so I did) and then we headed downstairs in search of not only Gallagher but Fifi (a small pink kitty that Taliana gave to him) and Mao (a small, red, hand-me-down McDonald’s cat).
Anyway, Gallagher has become a very important character! Yesterday, Gallagher climbed to the top of the backyard where it’s not safe and Dylan had to tell him to come down! Dylan also left a bowl of sparkly water for him to drink as a means of trying to coax him down and he has been preparing all sorts of food for Gallagher in his little kitchen….
Today, Gallagher was blamed for drawing in one of Dylan’s photo books — when I asked, “who drew in here?” Dylan promptly responded, “not meeeee…I think it was Gallagher” and then he ran off to tell Gallagher that we only draw on paper and on whiteboards (“do you hear that??”).
It’s yet another thing this little fella does that just keeps us laughing…!
