Airplanes

At breakfast today Sarah said, "The airplane was invented in ?? (she knew but I can't remember) but it wasn't very popular at first. When the Righteous Brothers flew it not too many people liked it." Alan immediately started to sing, "You never close your eyes anymore when I fly my plane..."

Sarah uses words we don't hear much anymore

Sarah is starting to use more and more words and phrases that she reads in books. The ones from Little House on the Prairie are a bit dated and others are just strange to hear from a 6-year old. She'll say, "I declare, we're almost out of soap in this bathroom."

A play

Sarah and her friend wrote a play (meaning reader's theater) for their class. I was invited to come and watch it. It's about a scientist (Sarah) who encounters a dinosaur statue that has come to life. They resolve this issue by having the oxygen atom remove all the oxygen in the air, thus creating very bad air. The dinosaur turns back into a statue and the oxygen atom releases oxygen back into the air. It was very funny to hear 1st graders doing a "play" about atoms.

Another List

Sarah is into making lists lately. She handed me this one last week. I'm not sure if she knows we're expecting or just decided to do this on a whim. We haven't told the girls the news yet. Anyway here it is:

If We had another girl I would name her:

1. Rosemary
2. Daffiddle (Daffodil is what she was going for I think.)
3. Lavender
4. Blossom
5. Rose
6. Daisy
7. Katie
   

The birthday plan

For some unknown reason, Sarah decided to plan her birthday party now. (Yes, her birthday is still Aug. 28th) Here is the list she made. And I quote:
By Sarah Wessman
1. Make the whole family room into Dinosaur Land.
2. Have cake and icecream.
3. Play Dinosaur games.
4. Learn about Dinosaurs.
5. Open presants.
6. Go home.
What I will do on my birthday party.

Spy List

Sarah and Emmie have taken to playing a new game called 'Spy'. It entails sneaking into the room I am in and 'hiding' in plain view. Sarah takes notes about what I am doing and I found this list yesterday. (I've typed it exactly how it was written.)

Sarah to Emies Spy list.
Day 1.

1. Check on the cookies.
2. Get them out.
3. set them on the counter to cool.
4. Wipe the counter.
5. Melt butter.
6. Put suger in it.
7. Mix it with spoon.
8. Add coloring to it.
9. Mix it with a spoon.
10. Worck on computer.
11. Get balloon for Alyssa.
12. Talk with hunsbend.
    

Sarah's Home Rules

Sarah wrote this list of Home Rules a few weeks ago. It's taken me this long to post them because I think the list makes me sound like a bad mother, but I need to be humble and they are amusing so here they are for your reading pleasure.(Typed exactly how she wrote them.)
1. No yelling
2. Obey your mother
3. Be good
4. Don't run away
5. Don't be naughty
6. Help one another
7. Don't tire your mother
8. Don't ask to many questions
9. Don't bother your mother
10. Don't be bossy

things she said tonight

While brushing her teeth she said to Alan, "Don't watch me, I've got a trick up my sleeve."

In the car she was chattering non-stop (literally) asking questions and generally being a chatterbug. "Why do we need to eat? Why do we have a bum bum? Why do we have to breath?" Finally there was a 5 second pause... "I can't think of what to say." I replied, "Then don't say anything. You don't have to talk all the time. It's nice to be quiet sometimes."
To which she responded, "Why don't you say something."
"I don't have anything to say."
"You can't think of something to say?"
"Nope."
"Why don't you think of something and then you will have something to say."

Bibbity Bobbity Boo

The other night I had forgotten to have Sarah do her asthma breathing treatment. So I took the little plastic thingy that gives her a dose to inhale upstairs to her bedroom when I was going to bed. She was sooo asleep and I couldn't seem to wake her. I rubbed her back and talked to her and tried to get her to sit up all to no avail. Finally she sat up and I explained that she needed to do her breathing thing. "Okay," she mumbled and raising her hands slightly she said, "Bibbity boppity boo. There." and laid right back down and went to sleep. Even with my laughing it took several more minutes to wake her again.

Sarah is bossy

Sarah was playing school with her Grandma Paulsen. Sarah said, "I'll be the teacher and you have to obey my commandments." Grandma told her something about maybe rules should be used instead of commandments. Sarah responded that she needed them to be commandments because she wanted Emmie to obey her.

a list

I found this list Sarah had made. No idea why she wrote it but I liked it.

1. Lern Things
2. Be good
3. Drink water
4. Share
5. Obey
6. Don't be bad
7. Be polite
8. Use your manners
9. Love
10. pray
11. Obey the word of wisdom
12. Write

And that is exactly how she wrote them too.

figured out

Yesterday the whole family had the stomach flu. Alan was the slowest to feel gross and was a huge help in the morning. By afternoon he was gross and went to lie down during nap time. Sarah woke up and came downstairs where I was resting on the couch. "I see Dad is resting in bed." "Yes," I said, "he isn't feeling well." "Oh," she said, "so he finally figured it out."

doctors doctors and more doctors

When Sarah woke up after coughing all night Saturday morning she was wheezing quite a bit. So away we went to the doctor's office. While we were waiting Sarah was observing the receptionist. The receptionist had a ear piece to talk on the phone. After a few minutes she said to me, "That lady is talking to her computer." Clearly she thought the woman was unbalanced and shouldn't be around a place trying to help people get well. I digress. Finally we were seen by a doctor who listened to her and congratulated us on our soon to be purchase of a nebulizer. She had two breathing treatments there and we went home. Well we went home after stopping at Carls Jr. and ShopKo. Five minutes after getting and giving her the medication on the way home, Sarah threw up. Oh well. She took a nap and then we redosed her with the steriod to help keep her lungs open. Jump forward several hours. Time for baths. 8:00. Sarah goes to the bathroom and squeals because it hurts to go potty. Great. 8:00 is when all the clinics and urgent care places close. After talking to the on-call doctor we drove to the emergancy room in Payson. We arrived home at 10:30 where we gave her another breathing treatment and a bunch more medication before finally putting her to bed. Sarah is the one who likes to take a common cold and turn it into a viral lung wheezing episode and then visit the ER the same day for a bladder infection. Today in her journal she wrote, "I am sick. I went to a hospetlle that I've never been to before. None of it hurt. It was fun!"

gradulation

Yesterday was Sarah's kindergarten graduation or "gradulations" as Emmie called it. I never had this sort of thing and I don't feel bad about it either. It reminds me of Mr. Incredible when confronted by his wife about not wanting to go to Dash's graduation. "He is moving from the 4th grade to the 5th grade! They keep finding new ways to celebrate meritocracy!" Seriously though, it was cute. They sang a bunch of choreographed songs and there was a short slide show featuring the children. Sarah was in the front row which was great because of how expressive she is when she sings. The best part was getting to take her home afterwards and being done with school for a whole summer! I love having her home. Her report card (which is another joke) had a note from her teacher letting us know she's reading on a level "N". This isn't actually all that helpful for parents unless they've been teachers before. She's reading on late 3rd grade level. (The letters allow for the reading levels to be broken down into smaller steps within a grade level.) She started the year on a level "K" so we're happy she's progressed.

gravity

Yesterday at lunch I was trying to get the last of the applesauce out of the jar and said something like, "Come on gravity, do your job." A few minutes later as Sarah was eating her applesauce she said, "I think that gravity is broken."

Mt. St. Sarah

"Let's play volcano. I'll be the volcano. Let's pretend I'm interrupting. That means I'm alive and pulling out rocks."

We'll see

After lunch today Sarah asked Shannon if the girls could have cake after their naps, and Shannon replied, "We'll see." Immediately Sarah asked, as with sudden realization, "Is 'we'll see' another word for 'no'?"

At Walmart

Before we went to Walmart I asked Sarah if she needed to go to the bathroom and encouraged her to go but no...
So at Walmart...
"My body is telling me it has to go potty but I am telling it not now because we are at Walmart. I asked it if it had to go at home but it didn't but then it made potties and now it says it has to go. (A few minutes later) My potties are growling at me. (We were on the way to the bathroom here.) My potties are like a monster that is growling and telling me it has to get out."

innernet

At dinner Sarah was telling Alan about her day at school and the movie they watched about being safe on the Internet. We didn't realize she was saying "Innernet" until she asked Alan, "Daddy, where's the outernet?" Well, where is it?

upside this

Sarah just handed Alan her inside-out nightgown and said, "Can you upside this out?"