Rachel loves Grandma and Grandpa!

We had a lovely time with Grandma and Grandpa this weekend -- all except for Grandma's ill health and stomach pain scare that prevented us all from being in one room at the same time. But, hey, we all got to meet at dinner Sunday! At a nice restaurant! Where Rachel was well-behaved! Because she spent most of the time coloring! Kudos to Grandma for being such a good sport when she really would rather have been sleeping off a nasty cold.

Rachel was her usual well-behaved, sweet self, saying "please" and "thank you" to the waitress who took our order at the very chic South Park restaurant right near Mom and Dad's hotel. When I asked her what she was ordering, Rachel said, "noodles, but it's called pasta." She proceeded to eat most of her penne, some cheese from Drew's and my salads, and some focaccia. "Yum, yum!" she said to everything, prompting Dad to urge me not to worry about whether she eats her carrot every night -- she'll discover vegetables soon enough, he says.

When she found out Grandma's favorite color is yellow, Rachel proceeded to color part of a picture in her princess coloring book yellow and then went around the table to show it to her. Then toward the end of dinner, as she was about to give Grandpa a hug, she said, "can you come to my birthday?" (This was after Grandma and Grandpa told her they were leaving Monday and she pouted in a very grown-up way: "awww!"). "We'll try," Grandpa promised, and we reminded Rachel that we were heading to New York for Passover.

It was too short a visit, but Rachel really loves her grandparents. And that's all that matters.

Cute Rachel sayings:

As she carried the Sunday NYT into the house by slinging the blue bag that contained it over her back: "This is like a sack of potatoes!"

And when we weren't quite sure whether we'd meet Grandma and Grandpa for brunch on Sunday but decided to give Rachel some cereal anyway: "This is pre-breakfast," she said. Made sense to us.