Sarah is a Hoot

I found these two papers on Sarah's desk and had to document them. Sarah is such a list person, just like me. It is so funny. She makes lists constantly. She doesn't necessarily use them (like me too!) but she likes to write them down. I had to do some funky editing to make the words more readable on these pictures. In case it is too small here is what the above paper says...

Mon, Tues, Wed., Thurs., Fri. morning ruteen

By Sarah Elizabeth

1. Wake up

2. Turn light on

3. Make bed

4. Wake up mom (ha! this is the other way around!)

5. Brush teeth

6. do hair

7. get backpack and jacket out

8. eat breakfast

9. get jacket and backpack on

10. go to bus stop

11. get on bus

12. go to school

13. homework done

14. play in room

I love how specific Sarah gets on this list as if she needs to remember on her list to go to school after she gets on the bus. I just thought this was cute. It reminds me of the Frog and Toad story "The List" Which is one of my most favorite kid's books. Good old Frog and Toad.

Here's what is written above, in case it is hard to read...

"When bleding get water on a towle and put it on the owy. Get a bandaid and put it on the owy and then they should be fine.

headachc - take medasin

scinned knee - hold wet towl up to skin

throwup - call janitor to clean up mess. send child to the office.

blackeye - send child to office

pink eye - send child to office

I love my Sarah. She has such a great imagination and is turning out to be such a funny kid. I love laughing with her and she gets the biggest grin when she says something that really gets me going. She is also quite a good joke maker-upper these days too. I'll have to ask her to remind me of some of them so I can post them. She's pretty funny.

Here's something that made me laugh until I almost cried. While the girls watched Anastasia during my paint-a-thon in the upstairs hallway, there was a part where Anastasia yells, "Men are such babies!" Sarah gave a hearty belly laugh at this and immediately turned to Natalie, as if she had experience in this area, and said as she laughed, "She's right! It's true!" I cracked up. How does my 8 year old already find this so funny?

I actually think that Ned* - the man in our household - is NOT much of a baby at all. Although I can appreciate the humor because I have seen some men that are babies. Perhaps Sarah has seen some 2nd grade boys not being very "manly" or something? Who knows, but her reaction was hilarious to me!

Other Sarah news as of late - her science project will be going to district she found out officially today and she is thrilled. You would have thought she won the lottery when she found out.

On the sad side of winning . . . Sarah had a very sad day on Monday on the bus ride home. Last Friday, she and a friend in her reading class won a Handwriting Contest. The prize was that her student teacher was going to bring them Jamba Juices on Monday. She was excited all weekend. The day came and she got to have a little of the treat during reading, but her teacher had to put it in the freezer at school after that. Sarah and Samantha went after school to get the Jambas to take home. Sarah had only eaten a little bit of her big prize when the bus driver informed her that she would have to throw the drink in the garbage because food was not allowed on the bus. She was devastated. And was so sad when she got off the bus she couldn't even talk to us. (Mind you this was the afternoon when she finally got to see daddy after his weekend trip and she had been so excited to see him.) Ned* finally got her to talk to him and she told him through many tears about the injustice. We were annoyed that the bus driver could think of no other solution, but decided that we should all go get a Jamba Juice together to make up for the lame incident.

Mr. Bus driver apologized the next day when he picked up Sarah. I was still a little miffed and explained what that prize meant to her. I asked him to kindly have Sarah call me to pick her up if that ever happened again, rather than throwing a perfectly good Jamba away. The wasteful part of the whole thing bugged me too.

Rules Shmooles. (o: