Little Bits of You

Dear Rachel,

You are growing up in such amazing ways and crack me up with all of your little Rachelisms lately.

On the way home from school today, you and Cordelia were pretending to talk to each other on the phone. You asked me what that 'S' word was, again. Suburbs. Yes!
"Cordelia, let's go to the SUBURBS today!"
"No, I want to pretend we're in the city."
"No, the SUBURBS are so much better! We get to go there. I'm going there now. We get to LIVE there!!"

Last night was Halloween. Kingsley was a pirate in his pirate ship, you and Cordelia were mermaids. Whenever I asked to get a picture of you with King in it, you wanted to lie on the ground and pretend to be swimming by his ship.

It rained all last night. We went Malloweening at Masonville and then planned on trick or treating up and down the street. You got very bored, very quickly and we ended up just doing one half of the street, then walking up the other and skipping all of the houses on the way to Mason's and the special Halloween house.

If I ask you what you're full of, you will say AWESOME and BEANS, specifically you like to be full of the Opera Bean. Nana loves your opera bean, so you tell me. You like to sing like you think an opera singer sounds... in your head anyway. In reality, it's more like yodeling. It's hilarious. Tonight you showed me that you also had the lower register. I can't help laughing, you just crack me up.

Tomorrow your school is having a Big Crunch to teach about healthy eating. You all get to wear red or green instead of your uniform and you're going to eat an apple all at the same time to make a big crunch sound. You told me that you'd rather not wear red or green, you are going to wear your uniform. I asked why and you said that you're a little picky about what colours you're going to wear on non-uniform day: pinks, purples, and some shades of green like turquoise only. You really don't want to wear red or green.

I love you, so much.

Love Mommy