We were talking about tummy sizes in the car and Sarah remembered a lady we saw last year.
"Her tummy was very big! She was having twins!"
"We can't be sure Sarah, but it's possible. She must have given birth by now."
"My teacher told me about a mummy with five babies."
"Is that five children or five babies at once?"
"Five babies at once!"
"Do you know what that's called? They're quintuplets. Can you say that?"
"Quintuplets."
"Good. And one baby is a singleton. What do you call two babies at once?"
Sarah thought for a while and ventured, "Doubleton?"
----------
"Picasso!", I cried, when we drove past a Citroen Picasso at the mall. I've heard of this car as a family-friendly thing but never seen one so far.
"Picasso?", said Sarah. "That's a famous artist!"
She'd been learning about famous artists in school.
"Yup," I said. "Do you know what's his first name?"
She thought for a while and said, "Pika?"
h complete with undermounted black granite sink and glass cooker hob. Cabinet door hinges to be replaced as well, and a minor leak in a bathroom kerb to be fixed. As I speak they're dismantling the existing kitchen stuff and I hope to find it all done before next Friday.
We've also stacked up the girls' beds and Sarah has the top bunk with Sophie "downstairs". Pink and white flower-shaped wall lamps with green wiring each cosy up their own little nooks. Sophie has been surprisingly good about not being the one on top, although she did assure herself, "Next time when I'm big girl and Jiejie is small girl I can sleep on top." We have also on occasions found both girls zonked out on the top bunk! All to make space for Matt who'll be giving up his room to Rachel until she sleeps through, and then there'll be another round of rearrangements to come.
