Rachel's letters

We found out over the past few days that Rachel has been using the newspaper to practice copying letters. She has no idea why they're important, at least from what we can figure out, but she knows Becky and Sarah write letters and it's something they practice a lot. She doesn't want to be left out, I guess. What's neat is that we now have all these disaster-related words in her handwriting. /sarcasm.

Okay, it's not that bad. But it is incentive to work even harder with her speech/comprehension so that we can start teaching her how to read. She's still not quite there but she's getting closer each day.

Great Breakthrough!

So, this past Saturday was not the most fun. I've been dealing with very little sleep (teething infant) and trying to get my "interview" planned out so that as soon as I get a list of doctors I'll know what to ask them (heard some interesting stuff on that score that makes me wonder if I should go with a D.O.) and a birthday party planned and... it was a long day.

The point? I wasn't doing as well with my informal eye contact attempts with Rachel and Sarah this past weekend.

Here's the fun part. :)

Rachel came up to talk to me. Not a big thing. She asked if anything was wrong. I was busy with something and didn't look at her, told her nothing was wrong I was just busy.

She then said, "Mom?"

Still focusing on something else I said, "Yeah?"

"Over here."

I looked up at Rachel who gave me full eye contact, smiled broadly, then walked away.

:)