September 19, 1996: Murray took the kids to the mall the
other night. Caleb said, "I smell chocolate pretzels!" He was right;
they were by a store selling chocolate pretzels.
The kids are going to have lunch at school today because
they're having pizza. We were talking about that yesterday, and Sarah said she
wanted pizza, too. Caleb said seriously, "I'll tell you all about it,
Sarah."
Rebecca was riding with Murray Murray
September 20, 1996: Sarah was in the bank with Murray,
and he let her have one of their suckers. She was running, and Murray
October 1, 1996: The other night we were trying to get
Caleb to think of the word fat, because it's one of his spelling words. Murray said,
"What do you get if you eat and eat and eat for two weeks, and never
stop?" Caleb said, "A stomach ache."
At lunch on Sunday Caleb said, "Mommy, I just heard
somebody sneeze in my stomach." "I'm sorry to hear that," I
replied. "I just heard them do it again," he said calmly.
It turned cooler and windy as the day went on today. When
Murray and Sarah went out to get the mail, Sarah said, "This is a nice winter
day," then, "This is a horrible, biting WEE-yend. Wind," she corrected
herself quickly. (Probably still trying to get rid of her southern accent,
which, no doubt, Murray teased her about.)
Sarah is making a necklace for Grandma Brinkmann. She
said, "She'll say thanks, and like it."
October 6, 1996: Sarah told Murray
October 13, 1996: Murray asked Sarah how many biscuits
she would eat for breakfast, and she answered, "As many as you will give
me."
October 15, 1996: Sarah was showing me a picture of Jesus
being crucified, and she took my hand and touched the places on the picture where
there was blood. She said there was blood here and blood here and blood here
and, "Here, blood just all over God."
October 16, 1996: I was just fixing some carrot sticks
for supper. Sarah wanted to know why they had dirt on them, and I said because they
grow in the ground. She asked, "Did rabbits bring them out?"
We usually
have salad dressing to dip our carrot sticks in. She asked if we were going to
have carrot sauce tonight. We talked about the "sauce" being cold
because it's in the refrigerator, but she asked, "Why is the sauce cold? Because it's got the bottle wrapped around it."
October 18, 1996: The other day Murray took the kids
grocery shopping. When they ask for something that he doesn't want to buy, he
always checks the list that I send with him, and tells them they can't get it
because it's not on the list. So when they came home the other day, Caleb said,
"We obeyed the list."
October 23, 1996: This morning Sarah asked, "When
it's a new day, like Wednesday, what does Jesus do with all the other
days?"
October 24, 1996: Yesterday at lunch Sarah told me that
she likes to look up when she prays, because Jesus is up there. Yesterday afternoon
we were praying, and I told her to pay attention; we were talking to Jesus. I
was looking at Sarah while we prayed, but she tipped my face up and said,
"Pay attention to Him."