pictoral update

Rachel loves all things ballet. Here she is in her ballerina shirt with her ballerina shoes, doing ballet.

She also has a renewed interest in bubbles. The warm weather is affording us lots of time outside to use them.

One of her other new favorite things to do is to take a walk around the neighborhood while pushing her baby doll in its stroller. We used to walk down to the octagon (the stop sign) and back, but earlier this week she walked around the entire block! What a trooper. I couldn't believe she made it the whole way. She started dragging about halfway around and I had to say, "Show Mommy how fast you can push the stroller!" so she'd get up to speed again, but she made it!

Building with blocks (or rather, having Mommy or Daddy build with blocks while she watches and then knocks down) is another one of her favorite pasttimes at the moment. Here Daddy and Rachel were playing The Three Little Pigs. She was the third little pig in the brick house. Daddy was the big bad wolf. Daddy huffed and puffed and this time the wolf was able to blow the brick house down! Our little Rachel pig fared much better than the pigs in the story, however.... tickling, not gobbling, ensued for her!