Finally it's the day I have been waiting for all year and Melonhead and his mom came over to Madam and Pop's at 11:00 sharp. Pop and Mrs. Melon carried Jake's cage inside and we put it in the morning room with newspaper underneath and then Melonhead said, “Guess what?”
And he said, “I taught Jake some tricks.”“Like what?” I asked him.“Like this,” he said, and he took Jake out of the cage and put him on his shoulder and put Cheerios in his hair and Jake climbed up and ate the Cheerios. I could hardly stand it especially since I'm the one who has been giving Jake Cheerios all this time. Plus I think Melonhead is a big bragger. So I was glad like anything when those Melons left and the first thing I did was call Jonique on the phone and she came running over triple-fast to help me set up the guinea pig paradise.
The first thing we did was dump out the Melon water and put fresh water from our house in the bottle. We also put in new food and we stuck our arms in the cage and gave Jake a lot of petting and showed him his new ball with the bell which he didn't act interested in even when we pushed it around so it would make noise. He just sat there looking wiggy. I thought we should take him out but Pop said we should not especially because it might make Gumbo go berserk.
We stayed right by the cage all afternoon and only took one break which was to walk to Grubb's because Madam needed thumbtacks. Mostly we sat in front of the cage and ate our lunch which was sandwiches of peanut butter and guava paste which let me tell you is not at all as good as grape jelly but Madam thinks it is a good experience for a person to eat things from other countries which guava paste is, so she doesn't even buy normal jelly. Jonique was a good sport about it and I was thinking that maybe Jake would like a little sandwich piece but when I called my mom at work she said it wouldn't be a good idea so we gave him more Cheerios and mostly we just sat.