SEVENTEEN months!!

Time is flying by and Ruby is now a little girl! She is so smart and such an explorer. She understands SO MUCH. She can point out characters in books. Answer questions. Act out orders. She dropped some graham cracker on the carpet and when I said "Ruby, you dropped some" she looked around to find the dropped piece, picked it up, went to the garbage can, and threw it away. I mean, monkey see, monkey do, right? Yesterday was another example - she was wearing Uncle Dominic's hat (more on his visit later!) and then dropped it on the floor. I asked her "Ruby, can you give Dominic his hat?" and she looked at me, at Dominic, and at the hat and did just what I asked... of course she got a BIG round of applause after that :) She has had a rough month of sickness, and also a busy month of traveling (I think the two go hand in hand)... but is on the mend.

(poor sick baby...)

seriously! so sick... poor thing...