Rachel says--edited

EDITED--If you read this already, read the end....I added some.

Sorry I haven't posted a lot lately, but there hasn't been much fodder for a blog going on around here these days...potty training continues (she went a week without an accident until Saturday night; I thought we had turned a corner, but apparently not yet--yesterday was better, though, so maybe....), discipline abounds (whoever coined the phrase 'terrible twos' clearly hadn't had a three year old yet--it's much, much harder if you ask me!), and we're just ensconced in the day to day routine of life, which has been rather frustrating lately.

But she does say some funny things, so I thought I'd record some of them here.

*She was swimming in her kiddie pool in the yard last week. She came over to the edge, put her arms across the side, and quietly said to me with batting eye lashes, "Join me for a swim?"

*Her new phrase is, "Sure is _____," such as, "Sure is hot in here," or "Sure is dark in here," except it's pronounced, "Soor!"

*Whenever we pick her up from Sunday School she runs over and jumps up and down yelling, "Mommy! Daddy! You're HERE!!!" like we're her long lost parents she hasn't seen in weeks. Then the teachers proceed to tell us stories about her antics. Yesterday the teacher said she had taken Rachel to the potty and Rachel looked up at her and said, "You have such beautiful hair!" And when I reached down to pick her up Rachel reached for my necklace and said, "Mommy, I like your necklace. You look simply lovely!" (Another mom then said, "Did she just tell you you looked simply lovely?" I told her yes, that she watches way too many princess movies!) Everyone in the children's wing seems to know Rachel....we were on our way out and a middle schooler told her goodbye. She's obviously quite a character in there.

*She just talks nonstop. I wish I had a recording of her ongoing chatter because right now I can't even remember what she chatters on about all the time. Yesterday in the car I don't think she stopped talking from the time we left home to the time we pulled in the church parking lot, which is about a 20 minute drive. My husband and I just kept looking at each rolling our eyes--what a chatterbox!!

*After a long hiatus from playing in her kitchen with her play food, she's now back in the kitchen again, whipping up some treats for us. She asks us what we want, and after we give our order she says, "Soor, no pwobwem, coming wite up!"

*She finished her lunch (which is noteworthy in and of itself....she FINISHED her lunch, meaning she ate it ALL! That never ever happens--almost every meal is a battle) and said, "Mommy, I'm still hungry (again, hardly ever happens). I asked her what she would like to eat. She said, matter of factly, "Chicken a la King!" Now I have never made Chicken a la King, she's never had Chicken a la King, and we've never, to my knowledge, talked about Chicken a la King, so this was quite shocking to hear (I don't even know what Chicken a la King really is....do you?). Her dad and I started laughing hysterically and finally asked, "Where did you hear about Chicken a la King?" She answered, "In my princess book!" Oh yes. It always comes back to the princesses. She settled for a Nutri Grain bar instead.