- The dogs—Lottie and Nick—immediately love Sarah, and Seal seems to settle into their home, too, spending a lot of time roaming around.
- Sarah sets up her shell collection on the windowsill and shows Caleb how he can put them to his ear in order to hear the ocean.
- Although Jacob and Anna are a bit shy around Sarah, Caleb takes to her right away, talking her ear off from sunrise to sunset.
- One day, Sarah goes out to pick flowers and the children come with her. She shows them how to hang flowers upside down from the ceiling to dry them so that they'll have flowers all winter long.
- Caleb makes up a song about the flowers and Sarah and Jacob both laugh. Then the family sits down to eat the stew that Sarah prepared. She tells them that in Maine (where she's from), people say "ayuh" in place of "yes." Ayuh, ma'am.
- In the evening, Sarah sits on the porch and cuts Caleb's hair. Then she scatters it around so that they birds can use it for their nests.
- Then Sarah does Anna's hair and ties her own back, too. When Anna looks at them side by side in the mirror, she muses that she looks almost like Sarah's real daughter.
- Sarah leads the family in a little sing-a-long session on the porch, and then she tells Jacob that she wants to see the sheep tomorrow; she's never actually touched one. Baa…
- You know what Sarah has touched, though? Seals, and she tells the kids all about it and how the sea creatures kind of behave like dogs. Caleb says he wishes he could touch a seal right now, and Sarah says that she does, too.