Outside the Lines Wombat

Sarah loves to draw. We ran out of regular paper the other day and I found this old sketchbook of mine so I passed it along to her.

She drew an alligator!

Stereotyping Wombat

Sarah: Mommy! Look I drew a super hero! He has little legs but he can run very fast!
Me: Oh. Very nice. It's a boy superhero? (she usually draws girls)
Sarah: Yeah. He doesn't have earrings and he has short hair so he has to be a boy!


So....need to work on those gender stereotypes I see...

Countdown Wombat

There is something ingrained in little kids that makes them fear an adult counting backwards.

All I have to do is count "5....4.....3...." and Sarah shapes right up.

I really should come up with an action plan just in case one day she calls my bluff and lets me get to 1.

11 September 2008- 3-D Wombat

Sarah has been SO into drawing lately and she is really getting better.

Yesterday she drew a great picture (for a 4 year old) of the cats. They have fur, whiskers, fangs, claws (and big smiles). I asked her where the tails are..she turned the paper over and had drawn them on the back *giggle*

Thursdays she has show and tell. She brought a tennis ball. Oookay but whatever. In the car we had this discussion:

Sarah: My tennis ball eats tika birds (I have no idea what a tika bird is).
Me: Oh that's sad for the poor tika birds
Sarah: Well they aren't alive!
Me: Oh what happened?
Sarah: They don't live very long. That's just the way it works!
Me: I see. Where does the tennis ball get tika birds?
Sarah: Well they come from far away - and you need wings like a pegasus to get to them!
Me: So the tennis ball can fly?
Sarah: No. Tennis balls can't fly! ...I don't know how he gets them.
Me: Okay.

07 September 2008- Literal Wombat

I love how little kids are ridiculously literal and don't get pop cultural references.

Robert (being silly of course): Talk to the hand!
Sarah: Hi hand!

30 August 2008- Innocent Wombat

Yesterday morning in the car on the way to Sarah's school, Sarah suddenly said "There's a yellow license plate! That's silly! You can't have a yellow license plate!" I responded, "Of course you can. I think that one is from New Jersey. Every state has their own plate! I think ours is white with blue or red lettering, I can't remember." Sarah asks, "Can we check?" So I agreed when we got to school we'd check.

At school.

Me: See! There's our license plate. It's white with red lettering.
Sarah: *touches the blue grass and airplane pattern in the background*.."ooooh...*then concerned* Mommy, I wasn't the one who colored on it!"

29 August 2008- Negotiations Wombat

In which my daughter learns the value of negotiations...


Robert: Sarah, it's time to get up!
Sarah: If you let me sleep in today, I'll let you sleep in tomorrow!