altogether, now

Photo by Sarah Arpin

A friend and her friend came over yesterday and took lots of pictures of Rachel because photography is their hobby. This is the only image I've seen so far. I can't wait to see more! And I have vowed to never take Rachel to the mall for pictures ever again.

cute moment

Rachel's imagination is getting more and more colorful. She started saying "hello" last week, and she carried her toy phone around and held it up to everything (yes, everything) and said, "hello?" The chair talked on the phone, her sippy cup, the blocks, her foot--everything.

Rachel also started fake crying yesterday. She puts her face in her hands and lets out this oh-so-dramatic wail. I say, equally as dramatically, "Oh, Rachel, are you sad?" She looks up, grins, and nods, then holds her arms out for a hug. She has given me some really sweet hugs the last day or two when she was "sad." She also asks me to pretend to be sad, and, this afternoon, everything in her room was sad and needed a hug. Her book was sad, her little chair, her piano, her bear, her doodle pad--you get the picture.