Modest Wombat

While helping Sarah get dressed.

Me: You look really cute today Sarah. I can't take the cute!
Sarah: *grins* no one can!

Sneaky Wombat

This morning I was making Sarah lunch.

Me: Sarah you need some fruit in your lunch. Do you want an orange or a banana?
Sarah: mmm..I want raisins.
Me: Are you allowed to have raisins or is that too much like a snack?*
Sarah: Well if we don't ask then they can't say no.

....


She got an orange.

*a month or so ago I packed 6 Doritos in with her lunch and both Robert and I were given a talking to. Snacks are not permitted in lunches. Preschool lunch is serious business.

Observations of the Wombat

This morning Sarah was watching Chii drink water out of her bowl.

Sarah: She's drinking through the holes in her tongue, right?
Me: What? No, cats don't have holes in their tongue. Why would you think that?
Sarah: Then how do they get the water into their body fast enough when they are licking it?
Me: Well their tongue sort of scoops it up little by little.
Sarah: Oh. Holes would work better.

Nutritional Wombat

Sarah: I'm hungry!
Robert: You could finish the rest of your chicken from dinner
Sarah: No. My chicken spot in my stomach is full. I need to fill another spot.

Classifying Wombat

It is interesting to look at how young children perceive and apply gender.
This morning in the car:

Sarah: *holds up stuffed ram toy* This is lambie!
Me: Oh, but it's a RAM
Sarah: Yes, a lamb!
Me: No a ram, it's a boy with horns. It's a boy sheep. A lamb is a baby sheep which wouldn't have horns like that yet.
Sarah: I know it's a boy!
Me: Okay.
Sarah: I know if all my toys are boys or girls.
Me: Oh? What are the blocks?
Sarah: They are nothing.
Me: Really?
Sarah: They don't have faces.

Easter Wombat

We set up a basket for the Wombat to find on Easter morning. I had bought some of the components just the night before and while I was there I also bought some batteries which I inadvertently left out next to the basket.

This morning:

Sarah: Mommy! Look! The Easter Bunny came and brought me a lot of stuff including - LOOK!!!! batteries!!!!

Zoological Wombat

Robert and Sarah were playing with stuffed animals. Robert was playing with a bear and Sarah was playing with her favorite toy: "Horsie".

Bear: "I'm hungry! I want to eat something!"
Horsie: "I know where we can eat some grass!"
Bear: "No, I don't eat grass. I like eating things like Horsies!"
Horsie: "Hey, there's an elephant we can eat!"
Bear: *looks at Horsie* "Horsies eat grass, they don't eat elephants!"
Horsie: "Well, there's grass IN the elephant!"

Emergency Wombat

Tonight while Robert was going to get the mail:

"Don't worry Daddy, if you get hit by lightning I'll call 991!"