no more questions

Alan is way too busy and stressed to blog this even which happened to him last night so I will. Yesterday evening Alan was in the office frantically trying to do his consulting work, which is way behind schedule. Sarah is "hanging out with him" in the office, climbing onto the back of his chair and hanging over his neck while digging her little elbows into his shoulders etc. So Alan suggests to her that she "close the door on your way out okay?" "I'm not going out," she responded. "I am going to stay in the office." Alan tried to resolve concerns. "Why are you going to stay?" "Because I want to stay in the office." Again Alan tried, "Why do you want to stay?" "Because I want to." Alan: "What do you want to do here? Why do you want to stay?" Sarah: "No more questions daddy."

Counting

Sarah has learned how to count to 100. We are surprised (maybe) and happy (definately).

a conversation with her apple

Today at lunch:
"No apple, you may not get down. Why? Because I have to eat you."

Cute phrases

Yesterday Sarah came down from breakfast and said, "My tummy is full. There is not room for one more chex."
This afternoon she came downstairs and said, "The juice is on its way down to my tummy."

temple recommends

Tonight Alan and I had temple recommend interviews with the Stk Pres. We brought the girls and it just happened that we were both called at the same time so I took Sarah in with me. (This was what Pres. suggested.) Tonight at prayers it was Sarah's turn. She said, "Thank thee that we could go to temple square and I could sit and feel the spirit thing. In the name..."

holding hands

While crossing the street Emmie asked to be picked up. Sarah said, "But I need someone to hold my hand. How about if I hold my shirt. I will keep me safe." And she did. The end.

a trip to the dentist

On the way home from the dentist Sarah is going through the bag of goodies they gave her. "Look Mom, I got a new toothbrush, and they gave me some bum bum meddies for Emmie." (Bum bum meddies?? Also known as desitin, it makes me curious enough to glance around at what she is holding up. ) Ahhh, a small tube of toothpaste...

a whole new meaning

During the Sunday meeting of stake conference Sarah and Emmie ate some snacks. Afterwards Sarah said, "Mommy, I'm still hungry. I want some snackrament now."

A disaster area

Today after lunch I was washing Sarah's spaghetti face. Sarah said, "My face is a disaster area! Sometimes my face is a 'aster area and sometimes it's not."

The fools came up

Just now I heard Sarah singing with her dolly. She was singing the Wise Man and the Foolish Man. When she got to the foolish man verse it went like this. "The rains came down and the fools came up, the rains came down and the fools came up, the rains came down and the fools came up and the house on the sand washed away."

I like to look for...

Sarah likes to improvise her own lyrics to songs she knows. Last night she started out singing the primary song "I like to look for rainbows whenever there is rain..." which is actually called the Baptism song. Anyway then she changed it to, "I like to look for Daddies whenever there are babies..." which we thought was very funny and very perceptive.

some fruit don't come from trees

I've been reading Sarah Charlotte's Web at nap and bed-times. Yesterday Wilber got out of his pen and went into the orchard. I was trying to explain what an orchard was. I said it was a place where lots of fruit trees grew. Sarah said, "Not all fruit comes from trees." True, I replied, some like grapes comes off of a vine. "And some, Sarah injected, come from Walmart."

Words

Remember when you were little and you would hear an unfamiliar word. Usually you would just substitute it for a word you knew. Like Sarah in her song "Nephi's Courage". It goes like this (With the real word in parentheses) The Lord commanded Nephi to go and build a boat. Nephi's older brothers believed it would not float. Laughing and mopping (mocking) they said he should not try. Nephi was courageous and this was his reply...
I actually like the mental picture of Laman and Lemuel mopping.

Sunday Prayer

Today Grandma and Grandpa Wessman came with Kevin to retrieve the mini-van. They stayed for dinner and Sarah volunteered to say the prayer. In her prayer she said, "And please help Grandpa that he will get some hair on top of his head..." We all lost it and had great difficulty in maintaining our composure and reverence for the rest of her prayer. There wasn't a dry eye anywhere by the end of the prayer, we were laughing so hard.

mixed up

Once again similar sounding words got mixed up with hilerious results. Today Sarah was going through asking me what my favorite animal was in each of the baby einstein habitats. "What's your favorite animal in the polar region? Mine is the seal. What's your favorite animal in the banana region?" Banana region? I had to think for a minute. Probably the strawberry combo. She meant Savanna and suggested that I like the elephant the best.

Pioneer vrs pineapple

I dressed Sarah in a pioneer outfit my mother made for me when I was little. Afterwards it was family prayer time. Sarah asked Alan to please thank Heavenly Father that she could be a pretty pineapple. It's hard to remember long words like pioneer.

How to make bread

I was making bread this morning and as Sarah watched she told me how to make bread. "First you squish it and then add some flour. Then you do like this and this and make a ball. Then squish it some more and do this and add some more flour."

Another Story

Once upon a time there was a girl named Sarah. If she was good she can give Jesus a love. Then He will give her a blessing and that will be so righteous. The end.

Once upon a time...

Sarah is becoming a story-teller. She will ask if I want her to tell me a story and then she will procede thusly: "Once upon a time there was a baby. Her name was Emmie. She was a good girl. She believed in God and she believed in Jesus. If she were a food she would be spaghetti. The end." Here she is incorporating two common stories that we read to her namely, anything scripture and Julius, Baby of the World. In Julius, Baby of the World, Lily, the older sister, dislikes her baby brother for a time. One day her mother asks Lily to tell the baby a story and Lily does. "Once upon a time there was a baby. His name was Julius. Julius was really a germ. Julius was like dust under your bed. If he was a food, he would be a raisin. A raison tastes like dirt..." So Sarah changed the story for Emmie to include her favorite things. Every story is a little bit different. Today she said, "Once upon a time there was a baby. Her name was Emmie. She was a good baby. She liked both Heavenly Father and Jesus. One day an angel came down and told her to repent. She did. The end."

salad soup

Last night for dinner Alan had brought home some left-over salad from Brick Oven that his department had bought for everyones' lunch. The dressing was in one of those styrophome (sp?) containers and Sarah asked for some soup. We told her it wasn't soup but salad dressing so she said, "May I please have some salad soup on my dressing?" I laughed and repeated it to Alan and she said, "Yes you may," thinking I had asked her. It was very funny at the time.