Around the house

A post about life around our house really wouldn't be complete without these pictures! Ruby's TOP favorite thing to do is to talk on the "phone". She does have a little pretend flip phone that makes noises and says, "This is the operator, can I help you?". If she doesn't know where her phone is, however, she's happy to make due with anything that is "phone-shaped". This is often one of the remote controls, though her favorite is this one for the DVD player becuase it's the smallest.

It is SO funny to watch her talking on the phone becuase she just walks around all over making choppy little "conversation" and is very animated with hand gestures, etc. I really don't think that either Jared or I are nearly as animated as her when we talk on the phone, but I guess she's getting her information from somewhere so it must be us! Sometimes, as you can see in the next picture, she'll even lay down with the "phone" and here it looks like she's fallen asleep (though I think I just caught her blinking!).

One of the other "too cute" things that Ruby has started doing is singing! She doesn't really like to sing along when Jared or I are singing, but if we sing a line and then ask her to sing she really belts it out! Whatever she sings isn't anything close to what we've been singing to her, but she's trying to sing different notes and make "word-like" sounds. It's really cool--I just can't wait until she really sings along!! She also likes to make the animal sounds when we sing "Old McDonald"! Our little girl is growing up!

One of Ruby's favorite things to do with Daddy is play with his hats. She'll play peek-a-boo with them or just cover her face and try to walk around blindly. We like to put the hat on her head at funny angles to make her look like a little "baby rapper". Of course she loves it too becuase Mommy and Daddy are playing with her and giggling--two of her favorite things.

Well, that's about it for today. Hopefully I'll get a few more posts up tomorrow. I've got a horrible cold and am staying home, so I have high hopes of getting through some of my huge backlog of great photos to share with you all. I guess we'll see what Ruby thinks about that though... ;)

Oh, if anyone has any good name ideas for Bean#2, leave me a comment! I feel like this is a boy... of course I thought Ruby was a boy too... but this one feels very different from Ruby. We think it would be neat to have a Scandinavian name, so if you have a favorite name (boy or girl) let me know!