Scenes from a Friday

I have taken to singing "Oklahoma" from the eponymous musical, and Rachel loves the yips and yippee-ays. So much that she has started trying to sing WITH me.

"I'm singing WITH you!" she said excitedly tonight.

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On the way down to Salem, she suddenly, out of nowhere, said, "I wanna build fire tonight."
"Um, Rachel? You want me to build a fire, sweetie?"
"Yah," she answered.
"Ok," I replied, and then said that we could cuddle in front of the fire together.
"Rock," she said.
"You want me to rock you in front of the fire?"
"Yah," she said.

We didn't get a chance to do that tonight. Maybe tomorrow. Or when Drew gets here.

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"I like Mommy. I like Daddy," she said out of the blue as we were nearing daycare.
"And Angela," she said, although it took a minute for me to realize she meant our reliable babysitter.
"And Constance," she said.
"And people," she concluded.

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At daycare, Teacher Amanda was arranging things in a closet when one of the kids starting demanding her attention.
Rachel stepped in. "Teacher Amanda BUSY!" she scolded.

Teacher Jennifer said she and the other teachers use that expression when they're in the middle of something and one of the kids is trying to get them to do something.

I think Rachel is becoming kind of bossy, don't you? She has started saying to me, "stay right there" and "pick it up." Depending on what she says and her tone of voice, I either reply, "what do we say, Rachel?" "Please," she replies. Or, I'll say "Dont you EVER order Mommy around. That's rude and disrespectful." If she doesn't burst into tears, at least she's getting the message that I won't tolerate disrespect in my house.