More sayings from Rachel

Yesterday while we were driving to school, Rachel said, "Know what the best way to make a baby is? The best way to make a baby is to take a little bit of the mommy and a little bit of the daddy and put them together in the mommy's tummy and grow a baby."

Pause.

"That's how you guys did it, right?"

It got a lot of reaction on Facebook. Two of my favorites:

From Ruth: She's 4? You are in so much trouble...

From my friend Steve Bilow: I am SO proud of her! Yes, she's 4 but it's takes critical thinking skills beyond those 4 years to see what she sees. So.... while you're telling her to eat her peas don't forget to be proud of your great parenting and it's ability to empower her to think. Remember that when she's in med school at 11. :-)

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Tonight before dinner, Rachel joined us in the kitchen to hang out and do paper dolls. All of a sudden she began singing a version of "The Wheels on the Bus," substituting her own words:

The Daddies on the bus say "too much cookies!" (3x)
All around the town

The Mommies on the bus say "I wanna make cupcakes!" (3x)
All around the town

The babies on the bus say "I wanna go home!" (3x)
All around the town

The Rachels on the bus eat chocolate chip cookies (3x)
Yum, Yum, Yum!

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Tonight turned into a sing-along. Rachel wanted Drew to sing America the Beautiful and then she said, "Sing it again, Daddy. You do the melody and I'll do the harmony!"

Later she said she wanted to be in the same chorus as Mommy when she grows up, and I told her that in a few years she could join the Portland Girlchoir (it's an audition chorus and the youngest kids are in kindergarten, but oh what an opportunity!). I told her she could come to my chorus's shows, and I could come to her shows.

"And I can be in the Daddy chorus!" Drew said teasingly (he doesn't have, ahem, a singer's voice).
"What's the Daddy chorus?" I said.
Rachel answered, "It's where all the daddies get together for the big show and it's possible to get daddies to sing in a chorus like ladies do."