Imagination

Sarah keeps getting the funniest ideas in her head and it all comes from one source;her pal Jubilee. This girl Jubilee has the wildest stories and one of the best imaginations that leads to loads and loads of fun for Sarah. The first time she came over to our house she was telling Sarah how she's an Indian (politically incorrect I know but she does have some Native American blood), so she told her although she is an Indian she hasn't learned to shoot a bow and arrow yet but they had to run from the wolves in Sarahs' play house(Sarah is convinced that she is an "indian" too and will get very upset with anyone who tries to convince her otherwise. The next story was about how Jubilee rides around her neighborhood at night by herself fighting Aliens (Sarah hung on to that idea for months but has finally decided she doesn't want to embarrass anyone so she will no longer be Alien Hunting at night). The last great story is "Mr.Black Hat"; Mr.Black Hat is a ghost who comes out at night to take apart peoples bones, he has shadow people as his posse, and cloud streaks in the sky are his ghost streaks. She told me about this yesterday after school and was chasing him for hours; the way you know he is there is you see a black hat. Then when it was time to take a bath last night Sarah was having a hard time listening and I told her that I was pretty sure that Mr.Black Hat only came to little children when they were not listening to their parents, then she decided that Mr.Black Hat was not real. I can't wait to hear what the next story will be!

Sarah can count to 29 now, with less then a week of trying. It just goes to show that she's a smart little girl. We're still working on reading but she's starting to get the hang of it.
Today was a Furlough Friday and a friend from school told us the other day that the Childrens Discovery Museum had a discount on F.F. so we met up with them from 9 to almost 12:40, there was so much for the kids to do that they didn't even make it to the 3rd floor. I will have to take Julia sometime, maybe in the summer.
There were all sorts of cool things, I wish I had my camera; everything hands on, lots of role playing with careers, they even had a stage with a dressing room costumes and a sound board. Maybe we could have a B-day Party for Julia there or something.

Had a teacher parent conference today and the teacher hasn't seemed to notice any improvement with Sarah. I've definitely noticed an improvement in the last week, she's getting the hang of the numbers. Once she gets in to the 20s she skips around but we will keep working on it. She is also having problems with reading so her teacher gave me 3 books to work with her every day.