Our Little Rae Rae

This is the time of year for birthdays in our family so I thought it would be neat to post a little something about each child as they reach a new year in their lives. So I start with Rachel.

This is our little sweetheart! A now big 3 year old! That is by far the best way to describe her. She may get in to everything around and may try to boss her little sister around but at the end of the day she always comes out the sweetest little thing you talk to. She adores babies and will sit and sit jsut holding them until you take the baby back. For Harvest Festival her whole idea was to be a heart(I promise no influence from me). She loves to snuggle and give love. She has the funniest laugh I have ever heard, when she was a baby we called it her crazy old man laugh, it is so fast and deep it will may you laugh every time. When you have a conversation with Rachel she has this way about her that just shows you sweetness, maybe it is her soft spokenness maybe her love for others. Whatever it is she is a love. She is also the one who will follow me everywhere so she can watch and learn how to do them all. When she was one she would take pretend bottle of baby lotion and lift her arm up to rub them under it because she had seen me apply deoderant. :)

The other somewhat smaller side to our paradox that is Rachel is her mischevious side. She has the ability to move in stealth silence and get into anything and everything she finds, even if it is hidden. She has covered her hands and feet in nail polish, used mascara all over her face, unwrapped an entire box or bandaids, and maxi pads, and many many more things. She loves to explore just not when anyone is watching or can stop her.

Some of her sweetness also comes from the way she says things. She likes to wear shirks and stirks. She swears the alphabet song says l,l,l, somewhere in there. And she is the one that named her sister Na-you because she did not seem to get the fact that Nao-mi was not a personal pronoun. She also loves to just randomly tell me "I am big now" this means, I can now do whatever Isaac and Zanna can do. So sweet.

We parise God for every day we get with our precious little girl!