Here are some pictures of Rachel holding a salamander that we found in our backyard in the summer of 1998. We put it back where we found it after taking these pictures:

		Rachel looking at the salamander.
		Rachel showing off the salamander.
		Rachel grinning with the salamander.
		Close ups of the salamander meandering along Rachel's arms.

Here are some pictures of Rachel holding our bunny, Gus:

	Rachel grinning and holding Gus (no, she's not picking her nose!)
	Rachel yelling and holding Gus (no, she's not about to karate chop him!)

Here is a picture that Rachel made when she was 6. Mike helped her use XPaint on our Linux machine at home at first, and then she did this drawing entirely by herself. She had a blast and is well on her way to a career as a computer graphic artist. :-)

Here are some pictures we took in December of 1998. Nana had just given her some totally cool clothes, and we coaxed her into trying them all on and modelling them.

Rachel in her soft lavender shirt.	Nana with Rachel, sporting her new sparkly hooded shirt!	Rachel wearing her beautiful gauzy, silky dress
Rachel in her purple velvety jeans and cool vest	Rachel coaxed into posing in her cool shirt (Silly Spice? :-)	Rachel with her wonderful Nana

Here is a little slide show that I made for Rachel when she was around 3 years old. There are pictures of her with Hilary, who used to live with her, but lives with us now, Max the runaway cat, pictures of her with her grandparents, mom, dad, etc. In each case, clicking on the picture will get you to the next slide in the show (this was meant to be easy for her to do herself).