13 years, 1 month.

Dear Jack,

Since we travel nearly 3 hours to Alabama for the Christmas holidays and stay there for a week, that means our Syrian hamster Snowball gets to make the trip with us.

You do a great job of making sure he gets to participate in the festivities with everyone. Since he is nocturnal, his designated playtime happens to be right after we finish dinner.

Whereas I may have forgotten a few times, you always remembered to get him out and let him run around in the aftermath of opened Christmas gifts.

He even had some extra fun this year when he escaped from his cage in the middle of the night. It wasn’t the first time he’s done that though!

Love,

Daddy