The Passover song

I figure I might as well start teaching Rachel "Dayenu" since we will be singing it at Passover and I thought it would be cool if she could sing along. I thought she'd like it a lot and she does -- tonight she said "thas a FUNNY song!" especially when she's on my lap and I start speeding up and jiggling her a little bit.

"That a Shabbat song?" she asked the other day when I sang it for the first time.
"No, sweetie, it's a Passover song," I answered.

So now it is the "Passover song" and she asks for it all the time.

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Looks like Rachel may have some of her Tia Daniella's and Auntie Amanda's artistic talent. When I got to daycare a little early tonight, she was doing an art project -- stamping purple dots on a piece of white paper. Her hands were full of purple marker and she gave a big smile when she saw me coming -- "Mommy!" she exclaimed -- and kept right on working. I'd call it early Jackson Pollock.

She was sitting in the Beginners section, and the teacher told me she comes over there for art. "She loves making art, and coloring," said the teacher, whose name escapes me at the moment. Even though the area has a bunch of books and toys, she apparently goes straight to the table and does some art. Which is great, because if she has any artistic talent I will be grateful because she certainly won't get it from me or Drew.

Also...another little girl in Beginners made Rachel a little drawing. She wrote "I love Rachel" and drew a picture of herself and Rachel, plus wrote Rachel's name to teach her how to do it. Looks like our daughter has made a friend!

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Rachel quotes tonight:

While watching the guys play "baskets" at the daycare gym tonight:
"You watching baskets with your daughter?" she asked. I hugged her back and said yes.

Looking at a grumpy-looking player in a white shirt:
"He mad," she said. "He needs go home and eat dinner."

As I was bustling around boiling water for pasta:
"I wanna read a book while the water is getting ready for tortellini."

I've talked to her a couple of times about when she gets older and I will take her tea at the Heathman and then to the ballet (most likely "Nutcracker," which of course comes around every year). I mentioned taking her to tea again tonight.

"Mama, I wanna go to tea," Rachel said. "I wanna see all the little ladies and all the little babies."