Rachael's Pictures

Below are the pictures of Rachael taken with her doll Clara (I mentioned the portrait session in an earlier blog entry.) Yes she is still only 4 in these pictures, hard to believe when you get to the last black and white close up. I am glad she wanted to take them with her doll as it helps make her look her age - at least in some of the pictures.



Sometimes we talk with the girls about what attributes they have that we appreciate. Grace and Hannah always say that one thing that makes Rachael special is she makes us laugh all the time. Sometimes she is trying to, but sometimes she isn't. Two recent small examples: 1. We got home the other night and Rachael wanted me to carry her from the van into the house. I asked her why she thought she needed to be carried. She said that her stomach hurt and her leg was about to hurt.

2. She is reading a series of books (yes she is reading to us at bedtime now) with a little girl that has brown hair. In the book we read last night Rachael noticed that the pictures of the little girl showed her hair as darker than the other books. She told me that the little girl dyed her hair. I asked Rachael why she thought the little girl dyed her hair, was she trying to be Chinese like Grace and Hannah? Rachael looked at me funny and said without hesitation - Mom she's not Chinese, she is French!