on the move

Rachel and I have been traveling a lot lately! Ater meeting Aunt KiKi and Cousin Tyler at the mall for lunch on Friday, we drove 1.5 hours to visit MiMi and Poppy in my hometown. Rachel is really getting used to sleeping in her Pack n Play, and she slept great Friday night and during her naps Saturday. Jarrad stayed home to do more work on the house (not housework, unfortunately).

MiMi and Poppy really enjoyed Rachel's visit, as she made herself at home picking up everything she could reach, opening all their kitchen cabinets, and digging through their trash cans. She really thinks Poppy is funny because he copies all her faces and noises, and because I think she senses that he's really just a big kid at heart.

Aunt Mamber came over Sunday night so we could go to Bible Study. Sunday nights are such a nice break for us, and we are so grateful to our family for being available to babysit so often. Cousin Anthony came over this afternoon and was here to greet Rachel when she woke up from her nap. She walked around the living room grinning and giggling at him. I let her have Cheerios in the living room, again, and I let her play with a laundry basket full of clean diapers, again. Both of those things kept her happily occupied and gave us time to do school work.

Today was a great day, starting with Rachel sleeping late. She took two great naps, and went to bed a little early. She's not been feeling so great the last day or two, and I'm still blaming the coming teeth. But will they ever come??

Progress Report

Rachel is doing a much better job on the potty. I hope we can move along this week, and maybe actually progress for the first time in a while.

	potty	diaper
peepee	4	4
poop	1	0

cute moment DAILY DOUBLE

While Anthony was here, Rachel really turned into Little Miss Show-off. She pranced all around downstairs, cutting her eyes at him and belly-laughing for no reason at all. She was all smiles the whole time, until he was ready to leave. As he was walking out, I tried to get her to wave and say "bye bye," but she just sat on the floor with a really serious look on her face. After he left, she let out a quiet, kind of sad, "bye," and a weak wave.

Rachel is really into imitating now, which is really cute most of the time, except mealtime. At lunch, I was eating a sandwich and chips with dip. She desperately wanted some of my food. Since she clearly wanted to feed herself, I got out a piece of Zwieback toast. That was not good enough. I pretended to dip it in the chip dip, which appeased her momentarily. So, considering it was about bathtime anyway, I gave her the rest of her babyfood peas, and she spent the remainder of the meal dipping her toast in the peas. She ate it all!

non-toy toy of the day

Rachel played with so many non-toys this weekend. She loved carrying around a little tin with three clothespins, she played with lots of tupperware, Tia Milli's soccer ball pillow, and today, she found my trash bags...