She's getting too smart for us, Part 2

Drew and Rachel went grocery shopping and to the Children's Museum while I finished up some work at home. We had a fantastic dinner -- what Drew calls a steak-a-palooza -- grilled yak, buffalo and beefsteak, sweet corn (AT LAST!!), salad and popovers. As usual, Rachel thanked me for making my "special steak sauce" (butter, anchovies, salt, lemon juice, paprika and minced garlic, yum!) and said the steak wouldn't have been as good without the sauce. I love my little girl!

(While Drew and Rachel were in the Fred Meyer, he took her to the play area where they have an attendant watch the kids so the parents can go shopping. When Drew came back the attendant gushed over Rachel. "She's so sweet and polite!" she said. "She said 'please' and 'thank you' for everything! "Well, we insist on that at home," Drew said. It's nice when our work gets noticed...)

I cleaned up and made my lunch for the week while Drew took Rachel to the playground near our house. They've upgraded it considerably; there was a new slide, more interactive stuff and a map of the United States stenciled inside one of the slides. Also there were horns on the outside that you could yell into. "Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Rachel," she and I yelled into one. A few feet down was another horn, and Drew yelled, "and she had a companion named Snowflake the Unicorn." "And a knight  came by and rescued her," Rachel yelled. "And she lived happily ever after!" we all yelled at the end. Then Drew swung Rachel up on his shoulders and I suddenly had visions of Dad doing the same thing to Daniella and I when we were little. (I think men are genetically predisposed to do this; I don't have the upper body strength or the back muscles!).

On the way home she patted my head and said she was taller than me and I again repeated that I WILL NOT BE THE SHORTEST PERSON IN THIS HOUSE. "Why is it OK if YOU don't want it for me to get tall even though Daddy's taller than you?" Rachel asked.

Drew and I howled with laughter. She got me again!