Rachel
Alexa
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Ray Charles
Rachel likes to wear her sunglasses around the house. She also likes to sit and play the piano. I'm almost surprised it has taken this long to put the two together!
Monday, June 25, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Cupcakes
Over the last couple of months, Rachel has gone to my friend’s
home one afternoon a week. We are so
grateful to her for opening her home to Rachel.
It has been fun for Rachel because she has two little girls that are not
in school yet that are just older that Rachel.
One Sunday, we were walking down the hall and saw one of the girls and
Rachel shouted, “Hi!” She was so excited
to see her friend. She has also been
known to say hi to them in the middle of the Sacrament! This last Sunday, Scott was walking down the
hall next to my friend and her daughter.
Suddenly, someone walking next to me pointed out that the two girls were
holding hands while walking to Nursery!
Yes, we take her to Nursery already.
We needed to say thank you to Ariane and her family, so Rachel and I
made cupcakes today.
The best part, as with making anything, was licking the beaters! Rachel has never gotten to lick the beaters before today. I had cleaned most everything off and just handed it to her to see what she’d do. We started out with no bib. When she started drooling, we had to add the bib.
Clearly, she thought the little bit of cream cheese frosting on it was the best thing ever! By the time I grabbed our actual camera, she had licked the beater clean and was done. So, again, I apologize as these are all cell phone pictures.
The best part, as with making anything, was licking the beaters! Rachel has never gotten to lick the beaters before today. I had cleaned most everything off and just handed it to her to see what she’d do. We started out with no bib. When she started drooling, we had to add the bib.
Clearly, she thought the little bit of cream cheese frosting on it was the best thing ever! By the time I grabbed our actual camera, she had licked the beater clean and was done. So, again, I apologize as these are all cell phone pictures.
Rylie & Tyson
Rylie and Tyson were able to come up for 2-weeks after Rylie
finished Kindergarten. Since Rachel goes
to Nan’s house during the day, she got to spend a lot of time with them! Here are a few pictures that were text
messaged to me during the visit.
They played on the stairs and got to play at the park, among many other things. One day after they left, Rachel went searching for Lindsay at Nan’s house. She will be ready for them the next time we see them!
Lindsay was kind enough to bring a preschool t-shirt for Rachel. She brought it to me the other day with the headband on her head. This was the result! She loves this headband and will take it off to see it, then give it to us to put back on her.
They played on the stairs and got to play at the park, among many other things. One day after they left, Rachel went searching for Lindsay at Nan’s house. She will be ready for them the next time we see them!
Lindsay was kind enough to bring a preschool t-shirt for Rachel. She brought it to me the other day with the headband on her head. This was the result! She loves this headband and will take it off to see it, then give it to us to put back on her.
Gardening
Sometime in May we got our garden planted. We didn’t think to take the camera with us
for a number of reasons. The biggest
reason was probably the fact that we had our hands full with plants, shovels,
and Rachel. We planted tomatoes,
tomatillos, zucchini, squash, and lettuce.
Rachel was such a big helper! In
this picture (cell phone because we had our hands full), you can see she is
thinking about where to put this tomato plant!
A couple of days later we went out to see if anything had grown and take some pictures. Rachel remembered that she can play in the dirt in the garden and was quick to put her hand and shovel in. We have to tell you that the first time she put her hand in the dirt that week, she exclaimed, “YUCK!” This didn’t stop her. And, no, we did not teach her that dirt is yucky!
Another reason we went out to the garden was to spread our egg shells. Each year we save egg shells to spread around our tomato plants so that they don’t turn black. This was a perfect activity for Rachel to help with! We brought our cottage cheese container with us. Yes, it is a 3-lb cottage cheese container that I ate all by myself in less than 2 weeks. I do not normally eat cottage cheese, but have been eating it constantly during this pregnancy. Scott and Rachel won’t touch the stuff so I am left to eat it alone.
Rachel enjoyed spreading the egg shells and made sure to get
every single tomato plant (12), as well as the tomatillos.
After spreading egg shells, we planted our carrot and bean seeds. Rachel made sure to study the seed packet for us so that we knew what to do with our seeds.
Rachel even planted a bean seed. It’s the “white tic tac” in the dirt in the center of the picture. Unfortunately, we don’t have any pictures of it past this point because it didn’t grow. Everything else in our garden is doing well and we are just waiting to harvest now!
Naptime
The Easter Bunny brought Rachel this small pink ball and she
has taken it with us so many places! She
has learned to not let go of it while we’re in the car because she has to wait
until the car stops for me to help her reach it. One day, she had been playing with it, but
naptime was fast approaching. She
crawled up on my lap to snuggle with me instead of going to sleep and brought
the ball with her. Because Rachel has
never wanted to miss a thing, she fought sleep while sitting on my lap. I needed her to take a nap that day for some
reason, so I helped her put her ball away before we walked into her bedroom for
nap. When Rachel realized where we were
going, she quickly turned around to grab her ball. She was so tired I figured she would be
asleep pretty quick. Sure enough, this
was the result!
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