Such A Sweet Girl

Rachel loves to have her back tickled as mommy sings Jesus Loves Me, so I asked her to sing it to me. It is Rachel's feel good song. When she is tired or sick she asks for it. As Matthew has been spending time resting this week, she has sung it to him as well.

The Chair....

Rachel's Papa (Andrea's dad) gave her a nice paisly recliner chair, and she loves it. It sits in her play room, she sits it in it kicks her feet up and watches cartoons in the morning. However on this day she fell asleep in the chair...it was in a matter of seconds. She was laughing at cartoons so I took her picture, then went to show her daddy and email it to her Papa, and when I went back in she was asleep. Talk about comfort!!!

Matthew's surgery went really well, with having an abdominal hernia repaired he can not lift anything over 5 lbs for 2 months. Pray for me!! So we had to warn and prepare Rachel. Mommy told her that "daddy had an ouchie on his tummy but the dr. would make it all better. daddy will be sore for a while so you can not jump or tackle daddy, we have to be very gentle around him." Surely this would suffice, but Matthew took it a step further and said "the dr will cut daddy's tummy to make it better." She did not react, but I looked at Matthew and said "why would you tell her that?" She never really said anything, but the day of the surgery Rachel and I took him to the surgery center, dropped him off and then I took Rachel to school. I went back to the surgery center to be with Matthew, after taking him home I went to the school to pick up Rachel. Her teacher told me that Rachel spent all day telling people that "my daddy is going to cut up my stomach, but it is okay because it hurts." I could not belive it, and then I had to explain what happened.

But the best part of this experience was getting Matthew out of the house for the first time....we went to Walmart...he rode on the motorized scooter with the basket. I had to walk away from him several times while hiding my laughter, especially when he had to back it up and the cart loudly went " beep, beep, beep." I wish I had a picture.

Playing with the cousins...

The Weaver family came to Rockwall for a weekend of fun! The kids had a great time and played hard while the adults visited and watched movies. Rachel loves playing with other kids and gets very emotional when her cousins have to leave. We will need to get together with them more often. She was totally exhausted from playing hard with no naps. We tried to get her down, but she wanted to play to much. She had fun playing dress up with Anna and playing rough chasing Andrew. It reminds me of playing with my cousins as a kid. Andrew and Rachel spent the night in her playroom sleeping in their sleeping bags, who knows how late they stayed up talking, I know I could hear them well into the night.

This and That....

Not much going on lately, but we are heading to a busy week next week. On Tuesday Matthew will be having minor surgery which will require much at home care by me...and everyone knows a nurse I am not. The rough part is that the surgery is Tuesday, Rachel will be at school which is good but then on Wednesday I have a meeting with the Texas Workforce at 9am so Rachel will be home with daddy alone. Pray that she is calm and low maintenance that morning.

We have been spending the past few days cleaning out our attic, pulling down old boxes, going through old toys, pictures etc....and getting rid of some stuff while preparing other things for ebay or an upcoming garage sale. In the attic above our garage we pulled out 10-15 boxes and were able to combine them into 2! Wow that is some serious downsizing. We enjoyed looking at old photos, we each found our old drivers license from when we were 16...and old photos of when were dating...good times.

School....

Today is "crazy hat, socks, and tie" day at school. So Rachel is sporting her dad's Mickey Mouse tie, and her pretty bright Hello Kitty socks from Mimi. Check out the sweater....they just opened a new kids consignment store called "Kid to Kid" they have great stuff. I got this sweater for only $2 plus two more sweaters and a brand new jump rope all for under $10... Rachel liked the store because they have a pretty pink door that is just for kids to enter in exit from...she thought that was so cool. She is very proud of her Princess lunchbox and backpack as well. Today they go to computer lab....she will love that.

Windy Day...

The weather has been great this month. I can not believe how many warm days in the '70's we have had so far this January. We took Rachel to the park today, she had fun. We did not get to stay too long becuase the wind was so strong, I was afraid it would bother her ears. We enrolled her in our church's preschool program. She goes a couple of days a week. She seems to like it. They get to go to music class, computer lab, discovery lab and chapel. She goes to the library and gets to check out books to bring home for a few days. We feel really good about her being there. She is growing up so fast, she is no longer a baby, but a little girl. A little girl who talks constantly. We moved around some furniture in house and turned a spare room into her play room. She loves it! It has a lot of direct sunlight and all her big toys go in there, she spends a lot of time in there.

The Holiday's are over...

I am a little glad, although Rachel was very upset when we took down the Christmas decorations....so we went to Target and bought a small fiber optic lit 32inch tree for her room. We let her decorate it with plastic ornaments and it serves as a great nightlight. Plus it let's her celebrate Christmas all year long! We had a great Christmas, Rachel decorated cookies and a gingerbread house with Gran in Tenessee, she played games and dress up with her cousins in Alabama, and spent 2000 miles in the car over a 10 day period! She is such a trooper!