Random Rachel

No matter how rushed I feel in the morning, I always make sure to read Rachel a book before getting her dressed. This morning it was "Bath Time" by Sandra Boynton. It's about a piggy who gets paint all over itself and proceeds to take a bath. It's a cloth book, about four pages long, really more suited to babies at bathtime than toddlers. But Rachel loves it.

One of the bath toys that the piggy takes to the bath is a hippopotamus. "I want a hippopotamus today," Rachel said.

"Really? What would the hippopotamus do?" I asked.

"Lie in grass and drink wah-dee (water)," she answered. "In the, in the backyard."

(I'm making her sound way more comprehensible than she really is).

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At the end of "Bath Time," the rubber ducky goes "squeak squeak!" So I said, "squeak squeak!"

"Don't say that word, Mom!" Rachel said disapprovingly. "Quack quack!"

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"Mommy's favorite color is green," I said the other day as I put her in a green onesie. "Do you like green?"

"I like green," Rachel said. "But I like yellow better."

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Tonight at dinner (yes, we actually have dinnertime conversations now), I asked Rachel if she liked her friends at her new school. She said yes.

"Henry," she said suddenly.

"Is he your friend?" I replied.

"Hug," she said.

"He gave you a hug?"

"Kiss me."

"He kissed you, too? Did you hug and kiss him back?"

"Yes."