*Last week was school picture retake day. She was sick on picture day, so we only had this one chance to get a decent picture. I didn't have very high hopes, because I know the struggle we have with getting her to actually look AT the camera and smile a decent smile, but we took our chances and ordered some anyway. Her eyes are always looking off to the side and she does a cheesy grin until you get her to stop thinking about posing and laughing about something else. But it's definitely a struggle. So it was no surprise to me that when I picked her up from school her teacher immediately started laughing and telling me how hilarious it was to watch Rachel get her picture taken. Thank goodness for digital photography, because they never would've done this when I was a kid, but the photographers apparently took twenty-some shots of my silly girl, trying desperately to get her to sit up straight, look at the camera, and smile a decent smile. Her teacher said she was leaning all over the place, saying, "PUPPIES!!" (which they evidently told her to say instead of "cheese") and contorting her face into all sorts of strange, cheesy smiles. I'll be very interested to see what they finally ended up with--she said they finally had two decent ones, so we'll see!
"Do you think Mommy should have a baby sometime?"
"No," Rachel declared, quite emphatically.
Daddy answered, "You don't think it would be fun to be a big sister sometime and have a little brother or sister to play with?"
"No, I play with my friends," she decided.
A week or two later, I was relaying this story to a friend of mine and Rachel overheard. She turned to me and said,
"Yes, I do want a baby. Can I have a baby, Mommy?"
I answered, "We'll see," (we hadn't told her our news yet, and still haven't--probably not until Christmas).
She excitedly replied, "I can't wait to have a baby in my tummy!"
Well, it's not quite what I had in mind, but at least she's a little more into the idea.....
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