Rachel's the big kid!

I think I mentioned a few blog posts back that a bunch of Rachel's friends were moving to kindergarten, right? Well, today was the day. Rachel is THRILLED to be the biggest kid in preschool, since she gets to be Teacher Erin's helper. Today we got in early enough for her to have her choice of "job" assignments -- little tasks that the kids do to teach them responsibility.

Later in the day, she said, she received a stamp on the back of her right hand -- to complement the other stamp on her left hand, apparently. "I set a very good example today," she said at dinner. "I picked up someone's bread and it wasn't mine, and I also said 'thank you' after I got my snack. TWO TIMES!'"

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Rachel reminded me tonight not eat the chicken bone I was chewing on, otherwise I'd choke.
"And if you choke, you can die," I said.
"I don't want you to die," Rachel said.
"Why?" I answered, thinking she'd say something about how much she loves me.
"Who will clean up? And who will give me dessert and who will put me to bed?" she replied.
Serves me right for fishing for a compliment....

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Have I mentioned lately that we're a house of princesses and fairies? (Mom and Mawmaw may remember this from the girls they raised...)

"I'm also Princess Unicorn Pegasus and I have wings and I wear dresses and skirts and tutus and crowns and tiaras and I have magic things," Rachel announced tonight. "Everything I have are magic things. Even the clothes that I have are magic!"

"Can I be a unicorn?" I asked.

"You can be the queen so you can sit on the throne and have a crown. Daddy can have a crown but he's the only boy. We can't have a kingdom without a king. And also the palace will be gray and all yucky and my horn will lose its magic," she said. "Also, my wand won't work."