A word with Sara. . .

Sara is getting near three now and her vocabulary is definitely growing! She is constantly cracking us up, and even though the words are never as precious on paper, I think they are still sweet:
We were in the car and Ben was screaming his head off so we told everyone to be quiet, cause really, why add to the chaos?
Finally Sara piped up, "Ben, he is. . ."and searching for the right word, ". . .he's a loud-ee!"
We smile, "Yes he is - but you are doing a really good job Sara! You have been really quiet!"
"Yesss!" she says slowly, pointing her little finger, "you're right!"

After naps one afternoon, she came and snuggled up with me as we waited for all the siblings to wake up.
She pressed her fat cheek up against mine, pulled my neck close to her and whispered, "I missed you at naptime! . . .did you miss me?"

We went to Costco the other day and it was cloudy and the fog started closing in and Sara began to holler loudly out the window, "Sunshine. . .Where ARE you???. . .SUNSHINE!!!"
And in a little while the clouds break, "Ah, there's the sun! MOM LOOK!!! The SUN!"

And later as we merged into traffic, a car came up alongside of us. From the backseat I heard a loud and fast inhale of breath,
"Ooo, scary-bad-guys!!!!"