Chatterbox

Ruby has been blossoming over the last few weeks. It's not that we've suddenly added and angel to the family tree--we haven't! But, she is able to talk and sing and pretend with such amazing clarity almost overnight. As a result we have learned and been surprised by just how much Ruby knows and remembers, as well as just knowing how she feels. Here are just a few examples:

Ruby is not patient by nature. Are any of us? We have been singing the "Be Patient" song for months whenever her requests become whiny and then on the verge of a full fledged tantrum. Lately, though, when she's starting to go "over the edge" she'll suddenly say, "Be patient, Ruby." And then proceed with the song (or her version of it), "Be patient, Be patient, don't hurry, don't worry, God is patient too!!" I can't tell you how big my grin was when I heard that the first time!

I also can't get enough of her talking about things that she finds "bew-i-full" and that includes everything from flowers, to ducks, to a fresh table cloth, to streetlights. Yes, streetlights. She has a big thing for streetlights. I'm also a pretty big fan of hearing that whatever I've made for dinner is "deee-wish-us"! That doesn't happen every day, but it happens with a lot more regularity that it used to, and her waistline is showing it!

We're also the first to know what she wants, doesn't want, and NEEDS! Sometimes the definitions get a bit scrambled in her brain though... For Thankgiving I made some of Pioneer Woman's Sweet Potato casserole. This casserole is delicious and loaded with sugar. So, we were pretty sure she'd dig it. Ruby had other ideas though and was thisclose to a MAJOR meltdown over having to try some. Jared convinced her to lick some off her fork, which was immediately followed by gagging (on Ruby's part, not Jared's), which was immediately followed by dunking her fork about a hundred and eleventy more times to lick it off... turns out she liked it after all.

One final cute picture of Ruby and I'll call it quits. Turns out bear had to go potty. She's also very diligent about wiping them AND tries her hardest to get her hands on brother's diaper cream to tend to their "sore bottoms".