Our week

Earlier this week I heard Rachel call out one of her favorite phrases: "Mom! Come find me!" She loves hide and seek. This is where I found her this time:

She's getting more creative with her hiding spots these days, I guess.

We actually got monsoon storms that rained enough to produce puddles twice this week. The monsoons so far this year have been a real disappointment, but we hold on to the hope that they'll pick up real soon. Thursday it was actually raining with no lightning nearby, so I let Rachel go out and play in it. She told me she needed her rain hood. I dont know where she came up with that, but she certainly doesn't have any type of rain gear. She loved the rain. Especially the walk afterwards where she got to go puddle jumping.

The first time we went puddle jumping this week she insisted on wearing her tennis shoes. The second time we were able to convince her that her clogs were much more puddle-appropriate.

This week I finally got inspired by a friend of mine starting to work on a quiet book, and started to make one of my own, two years late. Rachel could have been entertained for many a sacrament meeting if I had started a couple of years ago. But she'll enjoy it now, at least. And maybe learn how to do some buttons and snaps. I've gotten 4 pages done this week:

There's also a double page with 26 velcro spots on it and felt letters to put the alphabet on it, or to spell words. I have quickly come to love WonderUnder-it fuses two fabrics with no sewing. I have too many pages planned, but this should keep me busy until the baby comes. I had started cleaning up what is going to be the baby's room, organizing all the craft junk that is in there and such, but this has mostly undone all of that. But hey, there's plenty of time, right? :)