A Boy Named Charlie Brown

I was upstairs studying when I heard the uproarious laughter of children. I went downstairs and Sarah and Stephen were watching A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first full-length Peanuts movie.

Charlie Brown was pitching, and every time the ball got hit it flew by him and made him fall down and all his clothes fly off. And every time it made the kids laugh so hard.

Stephen: Papa, Papa! Sit down! Watch this! This funny!

Drawing And Spelling

Sarah was sitting at the lunch table, drawing on her dry-erase placemat.

She drew a very convincing banana with yellow and black marker, then wrote BNANA next to it.

Then she drew a red tomato and wrote TMATO.

Next she drew a bunch of grapes, looking several times at a bunch of grapes sitting on the table.

Then she slowly wrote GRAP while sounding out each letter: Guh. Guh. Rrr. Rrr. Aye. Aye. Aye. Puh. Puh.

Then Mama corrected her spellings, and Sarah erased the pictures before I could get a photo.

Santa Claus

Sarah: Papa, how does Santa really get into the house? Why does he come down the chimney?

(Sarah and Stephen look at each other, both laugh)

Papa: Well, because he comes at night when everybody is asleep, so that is the way that he can get inside.

Sarah: When we go to Grandma and Grandpa's house I'm going to tell Grandma to stay up late with me so we can see Santa!

Papa: OK ....

Bee Sting

Sarah got stung by a honeybee while swimming at the pool. I rushed her to the house and put baking soda and water on the sting, then washed it with soap and water, and put a band-aid on it. At first I thought it was a yellowjacket, since I had seen one in the area earlier, but she was lucky.

A few days later at the pool...

Sarah: You know what I learned? Bees like to go by flowers and by water! So that's why the bee was here that stung me!

Speaking of the pool, Stephen and Sarah have been learning to put their faces under the water and hold their breath a bit. Both of them have swum the length of the pool several times (using floaties on their arms still.)

Roll Call

Teacher Kerri: Stephen.

Stephen (deep voice): Here!

Teacher Kerri (to Mama): Every day he uses a different voice to answer roll call.

Boys

Sarah: Sometimes I see boys with bracelets and earrings and I'm like (makes face). But they have like brown skin. And they have lipstick but it doesn't look good.

Sad Movies

Sarah (very serious face): Papa, why do some grown-ups like to watch sad movies?

Papa (explains)

Sarah: Marlenne likes to watch movies where people die and she thinks it's funny. But I don't think it's funny, I think it's sad. Marlenne says I can see that movie because she says it's boring for me.