Let's start the week with a smile...

This morning it started RAINING. In AUGUST. And it was CHILLY OUTSIDE.
"I think I need an umbrella," Rachel said to Drew, who gave her the little one she carries around. "I don't think this is a day to go to the park right now," she said regretfully.

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Tonight on the way to the park (it had cleared up enough for me to come home, change into "park clothes," which means jeans and a t-shirt, pop Rachel in the stroller and head to Grant Park) she said she wanted to go to kindergarten.
"Why do you want to go to kindergarten?" I asked.
"So I can play, and fix tires," she said seriously (fixing tires is a reference to her bicycle tire, which is flat; it's leaking air and Drew needs to take it to the bike shop to get fixed for when she'll eventually fit on it; Constance got it for free about a year ago).

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This coming Saturday we're hosting a professor, his wife, and their baby, Apar, for dinner. Apar is about a year old, and I told Rachel that she could let Apar play with some of her baby toys.
"I can teach her how to share," she concluded. Oh, I can't wait to see THAT lesson!