Sam's Letter

The other night Mike and I went to his 10 high school reunion. Who puts the buffet away at 8:00? I was going to go get another plate (because it was darn expensive), but when I turned around it was gone. Very sad. Grandma Grace came and babysat, and Sam dictated a letter to her for Jane (Mike's little sister serving a mission in Toronto, Canada). She had us laughing pretty hard when she read it to us. My notes of explanation are in {}.

• 21 June 2008
  
  Dear Jane,
  
  Following letter dictated to Grandma Grace by Samuel Greer Clayton, age 3:
  
  I am very excited. I watched “Bob the Builder” today. Playing baseball is exciting too. I did something exciting at the baseball game inside. All those red and blue bats. You hit balls with bats. I didn’t really get a treat. There wasn’t any candy there. Hit the ball too. Red light, green light too. {Baseball was inside a gym, there was no candy there, and for the last activity they played Red Light, Green Light.}
  
  Daddy doesn’t have any tires yet. He has feet. He’s not a machine yet. He’s a human.
  
  Will is not a machine, and he’s a baby.
  
  Mom is not a big machine like (machine names Grandma doesn’t recognize {he named machines from Bob the Builder}). She’s a big human like my Dad.
  
  You should go to your parent’s house with Jesus, because Jesus is a good guy.
  
  Papa is a human and not a machine and not a book. Papa loves me.
  
  Osie plays with me, but not today. Osie misses me, and I like Osie a lot. I think about Osie a lot.
  
  Love, Sam
  
  Description of pictures for Jane:
  
  Black and green: Good job wall
  Green: Picture of my friends. They don’t talk because they aren’t human, and they don’t have faces either.