Weir of the Week: Sarah Emma Kurtz

Sarah Emma Kurtz, born on winter solstice, is the sunshine in our lives. Its not difficult to make her laugh but very hard to make her stop. All I have to say is the word "tickle" to get an immediate response. She prides herself in her laugh and practices it regularly with a snort. She loves knock knock jokes (go figure) and bubble gum. Her favorite subject in school is P.E. and favorite game to play is soccer which must be from her Aunts Molly and Jessie and Uncle John. She loves Shel Silverstein (a love she acquired from her mother) and her favorite book is A Giraffe and a Half. Here is a little poem she created just last week when up a tree

I'll sleep in a tree
With a tortoise and a flea
To keep me company

She told me her favorite place is Qatar...she said because that is where Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle John are and she misses them...especially Grandpa Weir because he says "swimmin' chicken". I asked her if chasing boys is her favorite thing to do at recess to which she replied (with gusto) "NO WAY!" She likes to play a game called corners which seems to be a musical chairs kind of spin off. She loves to eat pasta and will eat and eat and eat and eat it until I say "enough pasta eating!" She will say "alright, but save me some for lunch tomorrow!" I asked her what her favorite thing to do on a Saturday is and she said "going to the dump"...Elko provides such entertainment, prospects for learning, and growing opportunities for our children. I think she just likes being with her dad. She was born to me for good reason, me being a photographer and her being my photogenic subject. I love to take pictures of her and I love all the pictures I've ever taken of her. I love Sarah. I ask myself how I could be the luckiest one in the world to be her mother...I don't know, I'm just lucky. And that's all I've got say on the matter.