January 2, 1997: This afternoon Rebecca asked me,
"Mommy, were you born in 1927?" I said no, and she asked,
"Before that?"
Sarah got some more birthday money today, and excitedly
she said that it could be for Ping-Hwei.
January 4, 1997: Yesterday Rebecca told me, "Today
is a yesterday and a tomorrow and today."
January 5, 1997: Caleb came in to my room to comb his
hair tonight, and he said, "Feel my furry feathers."
The kids wanted to try to brush their teeth with baking
soda tonight. Rebecca hated it, and Sarah wouldn't even try. She said, "I
don't like it." Murray asked her, "Have you ever tried it?" To
which Sarah said, "Well, I just believe I won't like it." Caleb liked
it; he said, "It tastes like fried rice."
January 7, 1997: Sarah was playing very nicely with her
doll house yesterday, making up little stories about the people. I pointed it
out to Murray and he asked her if she was having fun playing by herself. She
said, "I'm playing by myself, but I'm not lonely."
I gave Sarah a chocolate cinnamon roll for lunch, and as
soon as she knew what it was, she said, "I don't want all this other food
on my plate."
A little later Sarah said, "Mommy, I love you."
"Because I gave you cinnamon rolls?" I asked. "Well, I can't
just love you because you gave me cinnamon rolls," she said, and thought a
minute. Then she said, "I love you all the time, and because you gave me
cinnamon rolls."
January 12, 1997: We have a little musical button we give
the kids to play with on their birthdays that plays the tune to happy birthday.
Both Caleb and Sarah asked this time when they had it and listened to it,
"How does the button know my name?"
January 14, 1997: When we told Caleb tonight that Daddy
really had broken his right foot last night (after he broke his left ankle last
August), he said, "He broke two feet! That's kind of silly."
January 15, 1997: This morning Sarah told me, "Once
in awhile, I wonder how God made us, so I look at my body to see."
Yesterday Sarah went with Murray to the doctor. One of
the young ladies who helped with his foot told them she had a three-year-old
and a baby ten weeks old. Sarah asked if she had a husband. The lady said no,
and Sarah asked why not. The lady said she hadn't found anyone she wanted to
spend her life with yet. Sarah asked Murray if he'd ask the lady a question,
and he said not a chance, worried she was going to say something more about the
husband situation. So Sarah asked the lady herself, "Do you love
Jesus?" The lady said sure she did; didn't everybody? Sarah shook her head
negatively and said, "No. Some people don't."
January 17, 1997: Someone called yesterday while I was
vacuuming, and Sarah answered the phone, then accidentally hung it up. She said
she didn't know who it was and didn't understand everything he said. I asked,
"Did you hear anything he said?" She said, "I heard it all; I
just didn't understand everything."
Last night we found bumps on Caleb and thought he might have
chicken pox. Murray was talking with Rebecca about it in the car later, just
the two of them. Rebecca said he shouldn't talk to Caleb about it, because it
made him nervous. Then she said, "And you're still talking about it!"
Murray said that Caleb wasn't there, so he couldn't hear. She said, "I
could tell him."
January 20, 1997: Last night Rebecca was getting ready
for bed, and I said something to her, maybe grumpily, and she did the same
thing, then said, "I'm going to be just like you when I grow up." I
said, "You probably will." She went on, "Grouchy all day
long."
January 22, 1997: A week or so ago, Murray and the kids
were listening to a tape of music Ping-Hwei got at the library. A song played
for only four or five seconds when Caleb said, "That's from the Nut
Cracker." Murray took the tape out and read it, and it was from the Nut
Cracker. Caleb went with his class from school to see the Nut Cracker before Christmas.
This morning, the girls were wanting to do something
quickly, and kept saying, "Hurry! Hurry!" Caleb told them that if
they kept being so excited, he'd have to use an exclamation point.
The other night we were struggling with Sarah at supper, trying
to get her to eat some beans. Finally she got a spoonful into her mouth. In a
second she said, "Daddy, I can't swallow this."
A few weeks ago the kids were in the car with Murray, and
he said something about some kind of ceremony. Delightedly Rebecca said,
"He said Sarah-moanee!" They have decided that a "moanee"
was a person's tummy, and they often talk about their "Caleb-moanee"
or "Rebecca-moanee." The other night a friend with a baby was over. Sarah
said happily, "I see her moanee."
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