Our Littlest Twinkletoes and other Ruby stuff!

Not one to be outdone by her older sisters, Ruby also loves her some country music :)  The girls were listening to "Mean" by Taylor Swift on the computer and Ruby decided to let the music move her!  I crack up when I see her moving her mouth like she's trying to sing :)

   So tell me...do YOU think she's got rhythm?


By the way, just some random Ruby stuff since I'm here and talking about her anyway :)

Ruby's first trip to the strawberry patch.  
I don't think she was quite sure what to do with it :)

- She no longer wants anything to do with baby food! I've been trying to get her onto "regular" food for awhile now but she just used the food I put on her tray as projectiles.  All of a sudden I was trying to feed her some baby food one day and she turned her nose up at it.  Now the challenge is to get a variety of good stuff in her during the day!  Another challenge is getting her to keep her food on the plate and not dump it all over her tray. 


- I know I am slack about posting but she has been walking since April 11th (2 days before she turned 16 months...she'll be 17 months tomorrow)!  I had every intention of posting about it and a short video of the morning that she took her first steps on her own but now that she's on her feet and can reach a lot more stuff I am busier than ever ;p  I just tried to post the video but I keep getting an error message that it doesn't want to upload ;p

Hanging out in the dirt at Max's birthday party.

- Ruby is such a funny kid with a HUGE personality!  She is talking up a storm now and is picking up all kinds of new words.  Communicating with her is getting so much easier :)  Her favorite thing to do right now is to say, " Mom, mom, mom, mom"  when I say, "yes, Ruby?" she will either "tell" me something in baby language, say "Hi" and give me a big grin, or blow a raspberry at me.  Then she does the same thing all over again about 3 or 4 times.  She stopped at the playroom door the other day and pointed into the room and said, "mess".  I asked her if she made the mess and she said, "No" and turned around fast and walked away.  I guess she didn't want to clean it up...stinker.


- She is getting teeth ALL THE TIME!  I swear her mouth drips like a leaky faucet all day long.  She has her first dentist appointment next month so we'll see how that goes :)  

Being cheesy :)  See the drool on her dress?

- I guess she is going to grow up to be an artist.  She is the only one of all 4 of our kids that has decided it would be fun to draw all over the walls and doors!  Abby and Lucy aren't as vigilant about keeping the crayons/pencils/markers/chalk picked up and out of Ruby's reach as they should be.  She has colored the carpet in the playroom a pretty shade of blue chalk, the side of the bookshelf has some kind of ancient hieroglyphics on it now, and the door to the playroom has some abstract art done in a lovely shade of neon pink highlighter.  Mr. Clean's "Magic Eraser" has met it's match with that one!


-Art supplies aren't Ruby's only means of artistic expression.  The other day Ruby brought me a wad of toilet paper that she had so lovingly unrolled from the new roll in the bathroom.  The trail that followed her was still connected to the tube in the bathroom.  When she handed me the wad in her hand I asked her what she was doing with it.  Her response?  "I poop"...then turned and walked away!


I may be too old for this :p