More photos

More time! Sick children sleep a lot! (I am sorry they're sick, of course, but the sleeping...ahhh!)

Nathan's new rolling prowess has gotten him into some interesting fixes. Here he is, all wrapped up in the blanket I had spread out for him to lie on.

And here is a peek inside--he loved it in there!

Nathan's rolling prowess really isn't that new any more--he's moved on to scooting around (mostly backwards for now) on his tummy. It makes for all sorts of new fixes, like getting himself horseshoed around a table leg and wondering why he can't scoot backwards any farther! He's also taken up a whole new hobby--eating food. He loves it!

And Rachel loves to help him eat food:

She has also recently discovered dress-up, thanks to some super-cool dress-up clothes she inherited from friends. Here's the latest installment of the Libby-and-Rachel Variety Show:

Photos at last

Strange confluence of events--I've figured out how to get photos on this new computer, and I have time to post a few!

Here's Rachel going to school. Any backpack will do, even the diaper bag that is nearly as big as she is!

Here's further evidence of Nathan's deep, abiding adoration of his big sister.
Here you can see Rachel on her new trike, and you can sort of see her new hairdo (This is post-nap, but it usually looks about that crazy. She has her mother's hair!)
Nathan has been working on growing some fancy hair of his own. It still doesn't really show up in photos (It's kind of vampirish that way.), so he asked me to post this photo of his pink toupee in the meantime. (It's Rachel's winter hat, but doesn't it flatter him?)

School, please!

Rachel is obsessed with school.  She plays pretend school and tells me I am the teacher.  She fills bags and baskets with play food for her "school lunch."  She tells Nathan that "When you're bigger, you can walk with Daddy and me to school.  Then, when you're really, really big, you can go to high school!"  (He responds with the same breathless enthusiasm he has whenever Rachel talks to him.  If she is obsessed with all things school, he is similarly obsessed with all things Rachel.)  She was wanting a backpack one day, and I told her about the non-backpack school bag I had in kindergarten and how I would put my arms through the straps because I wanted a backpack, and she started doing the same--with any bag she can find.  One day a few weeks ago, she got to walk with the neighbors to pick up their big brother at the school down the street.  You'd have thought she had been to a rock concert.  She is soooooooooooo excited to go to school next fall.  Now, if only she knew what school is like, so she'd know how to play school, what  to put in her backpacks, and so on.  All in good time, I guess.  For now, she's busy asking things like, "What's chemistry?" and "What's math?"  I hope she's not too disappointed that school won't include a whole lot of either for a while.