Christmas

It is Christmas Eve, Santa has already visited Rachel this afternoon outside, but she knows he will be back tonight to deliver gifts. So here is what she told her daddy.

Rachel - "Dad - you can not check on me tonight while I'm asleep"

Daddy - "Why" (thinking she was planning something)

Rachel - "Because if you get up to check on me and Santa sees you not sleeping he will not give you anything."

Pastor Chris

Living in the South has brought some changes, to be respectful to adults you call those older than you Miss Andrea, or Mr Matthew etc... Getting Rachel used to this has been interesting. She is doing well, but when it comes to Chris and Lisa, she calls them Uncle Chris and Aunt Lisa. While at school Rachel saw Chris walking down the hallway and she began shouting... "Chris, Hi Chris" Rachel's teacher corrected her and said, "Rachel, we call him Pastor Chris" Chris then spoke up and said, "Well, its okay, she usually calls me Uncle Chris." So the other day in the car we are listening to the radio and a line in the song states the following:

Song - ....My Past Regressed.....

Rachel - "Mom! Did you hear that, it just said My Pastor Chris!"

I laughed for a long time about that one.

Loose Change

Rachel's Gran and Granddad are visiting this week. Granddad had 2 dimes on the counter and the following conversation ensued.

Granddad - Rachel would you like these 2 dimes for your piggy bank?

Rachel - My piggy bank only takes quarters!

After much laughter she took the two dimes anyway!

Bunny Rabits

At the grocery store we got into a debate over carrots.

Rachel - Mom I want big carrots (the long raw kind)

Mom - Well I only need a small bag of baby carrots.

Rachel - No please, I really need big carrots.

Mom - Why? You do not even like raw carrots?

Rachel - Because I am having a tea party with my bunnies and they like the long ones.

Girls, Girls, Girls....

Today in the car Rachel says....

Rachel - Mom I want a baby brother

Mom - What? You have been asking for a sister for years.

Rachel - Well girls are a mess.

Mom - No they're not, why do you think that.

Rachel - The lady told me girls are a mess.

I was shocked that someone would say something so negative to her about having a sister, but then it came out that Rachel was asked "Are you having a baby brother or baby sister?" Rachel told them a baby sister. The adult's response was... "Wow, you will have a whole mess of girls at your house."

Hard work, or hardly working

So Rachel and I picked Matthew up from work.... here is the conversation

Rachel - So what did you do today daddy?

Matthew - I worked really hard.

Rachel - I worked today too, but slowly.

At least she is honest! ;-)

Dreams

This morning Rachel was telling us about her dream last night.


Rachel - Well we were at the beach and this crab came up to daddy and snapped him on the arm.
Andrea - Where was I?
Rachel - He did not have any eyes.
Andrea - (laughing) no, no, where was mommy?

All Shapes and Sizes

Rachel knows her shapes really well. And to her a heart is a shape so I was explaining that a heart is also what is inside of us and where mommy holds all her love for Rachel. A few days after that...

Rachel "Bless your heart mommy"
Mommy - Thank you!
Rachel - And bless Rachel's heart, and Daddy's square!
Mommy - What? A square, Daddy doesn't have a square, he has a heart too.
Rachel - No, girls have hearts, boys have squares.

Where does she get this stuff?

I'm 4 years old

Ok, so Rachel does a great job at writing her name, but she does it in all caps. Now that she can spell her name out loud and write it we are now polishing the process. So we are working on capitalizing the "R" and writing the remainder of her name in lower case "achel". The picture shows her strong attempt at copying mommy's version of Rachel. She did really well. But notice the drawing after her name....

Mommy - Good job Ray, now how old are you?

Rachel - I'm 4

Mommy - Right, can you write your age next to your name?

Rachel - (draws the picture)

Mommy - That is not a 4 silly.

Rachel - Yes it is, it is my 4 fingers. (she holds up her hand to show me 4 fingers)

The Creator

Lately we have been trying to get Rachel to understand that God created everything. For example she and I (mom) were in the car and she asked why we were girls and daddy was a boy. I told her that is what God made us. So then the next day we had this conversation.

Mom - Why are you so cute?

Rachel - (shrugging her shoulders) I don't know, thats just how God made me.

Love it.

Learning to read

Ok, so Rachel is doing really well at learning all her letters and their sounds. So we decided to try out an easy one today. I wrote the letters... D-O-G. Together we sounded out each letter slowly and then sped up until the sounds made the word DOG. She got it and giggled. Then she talked about Sebastian for a while. Later on I showed her the word again and the following conversation happened.

Mom - Rachel, what is this word? (pointing to the DOG letters)
Rachel - (after looking at it intently) SEBASTIAN!!!

Well she is kinda of right...Sebastian is a dog :-)

Popcorn Shrimp

So we were eating lunch at Logans Roadhouse which is one of Rachel's favorite places because of the peanuts. She always gets popcorn shrimp there. I have never seen a kid use a fork with a little bitty popcorn shrimp on it and just nibble on it rather than pop it in her mouth like popcorn, but to each their own. This day was funny because as she was nibbling one on her fork the breading fell completely off of it. Her eyes got big as she stared at the shrimp piece still on the fork and said.....

"Look it's naked and its pink!"