musings

*Rachel's discovered Super Heroes.  Oh brother.  She latches on to new characters like you wouldn't believe.  So while it was first (and still) princesses, then Thomas, then Cars, then Care Bears, now it's The Incredibles.  She puts on her "Super Boots," (pink cowboy boots), "Super Cape," (the felt Wonder Pets cape my mom and I made her when she was two), "Super Gloves," (white princess gloves, two sizes too big), and paper Spiderman mask from a birthday party she went to, and suddenly she's Mr. Incredible.  Then she slowly takes her mask off to show me that she's really just Rachel.  Thank goodness she reminds me, because I frequently forget, you know.

*Rachel's fascinated with the human body and asks me over and over to read her this Dr. Seuss book we have called, "Inside Your Outside," which talks (in rhyme, no less!) about the body.  So I'm currently sick with a cold or some sort of sinus thing and today she came up to me (as I was laying on the couch, not feeling well) with her pretend princess camera and tried (unsuccessfully) to lift up my shirt to "take a picture of the germs inside you."  I asked her why and she said, "Because I want to see those white things (white blood cells) eating the germs!"  (That's what the book says....that your white blood cells eat the germs when you get sick to help you get better.)

*Rebecca had her Help Me Grow evaluation earlier this week to see if she qualified for physical therapy.  She didn't qualify.  So on the one hand, it's good because they've determined that she's more normal than abnormal.  But on the other hand, it's not so good, because she's still not rolling over or pushing up, and they won't provide the physical therapy so she can learn how!  So I'm hoping that we can maybe do a few physical therapy sessions where we went before, learn what we need to know, and then I can do the exercises at home with her myself. 

*Until last night, Rebecca had been sleeping through the night for about two weeks straight.  I didn't write about it here because I didn't know if it would last.  I'm hoping last night was just a fluke (she was wet all the way through her clothes--which is all the impetus I need to move her up a size in diapers--I've been putting it off to try and get the most bang for my buck--there are more size 2 diapers in a package than size 3 diapers--but I'll gladly pay for the extra diapers if it means she'll keep sleeping all night!) and that from now on she'll stay dry and keep sleeping.  We'll see.

*That's about all I can come up with on a Saturday afternoon when I'm not feeling well.  Thursday night is trick or treat night around here, so I'm sure I'll have lots of pictures of my Care Bears again after that occurs.