Apartments?

We drive down Highway 55 all the time. There are some newer apartment buildings on the left side of the street as you are heading into Durham. On our way to see Cailyn & Lisa today, Rachel looks over and says, "Dats a big house, mama." I laughed for awhile before I could tell her they were called apartments!

Daddy's idea

Rachel wanted to watch a movie so Greg went through a bunch of titles trying to find the one she wanted. After each one she would say, "No!" Finally when he got to the bottom of the pile he said, "How about Backyardigans?" Her response, "Dat's a good idea, Daddy!" Love her!!!

Baseball

Last night, Rachel and Daddy were playing cars in the living room while I was cooking dinner. Greg had the TV on ESPN. They were showing baseball highlights. All of a sudden, Rachel runs in the kitchen and goes to the cabinet with all the pots and pans in it. She grabs the metal strainer and puts it infront of her face and says, "I play baseball." Maybe we have a future catcher in the house.

problem solver

Rachel likes for us to try and reach the ceiling or lights or anything that is "high in da sky." We stretch and try to reach whatever she is talking about at the moment. While we were eating breakfast yesterday Rachel was in her high chair and I was sitting at the table. She said, "touch the light mommy." I reached up and touched the light then she tried to touch it. She was too far away so she said, "I need shovel to touch it. I need shovel mommy." She has a plastic shovel and rake that she plays with outside and she knew that if she was holding it, she could reach the light.

Her birthday cards were on the mantel and she wanted to look at them. Greg would hand them to her and she would read it and then hand it back to him to put back. She decided that she wanted to put one of them back. She said, "Can't reach it!" as she stretched her arms up in the air. Her next words were, "I need chair."

Way to problem solve Rach!

Cars

Rachel has an obsession with the movie Cars. She hasn't seen Cars 2 but we are thinking of taking her when it goes to the $1.50 theater. Rachel loves to color on her cars coloring pad, read her Cars books, and play with her Cars. Her favorite thing to say to Daddy these days is, "Come on Daddy, lets play Cars!"