Trading Places

Here is Daniel's journal entry from yesterday:

Today is thursday february 3 2000 my cowboy name is joe. I'm a goodguy because i do't like bad guys. I fight badguys. Oce i got sent in jall by BAD guys. Then I shot them. I escaped throu the windo. On march 8 I maryed. and had a babby. then I went home. then went to bed.

In the car this morning, Matthew realized he was missing his little stuffed dolphin.

"Where's Flipper? Mama, I lost Flipper!" exclaimed Matthew, looking around wildly.

"I don't know where he is, honey. Maybe he swam away."

"No, he can't swim, Mama! He isn't a real dolphin!"

"Maybe he went off to join Sheena." Sheena is Matthew's stuffed sheep that he lost a few months ago.

"Mama!" wailed Matthew

"Mama," said Stephen sternly. "Don't tease Matthew."

Actually, I felt like doing just that. I muttered to Tab, "Let's change places with them today, shall we? I'll tease Matthew and you can sing songs using their names in the lyrics to annoy them. And then when they protest, we can imitate them. Would you like that, boys?" I asked, turning around to look at them.

They were so busy squabbling, they hadn't heard a word I'd said.

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