Ruby: August 2008

Ruby has curly hair and unlike her brother, does not start kindergarten

First something that is unrelated to the title. Ruby drew a picture of me (Mama) that I thought was FANTASTIC:

It makes me look like a character from a Dr. Seuss book, but I can't remember which one just now.

Around the same time, Theodore drew a family portrait, shown here:

Theo's attention to detail is impeccable. Normally I would put something like this on Theo's blog, but I really love how he captured his sister. Specifically, she is wearing a sundress and has really curly hair, and there is no mistaking her for anyone else. I am so worried that her hair will straighten out as she gets older!

Finally, a picture of Ruby after we dropped Theo off at kindergarten:

She kept saying, "I want to go to Theo's daycare." However, the truth is, she did a little bit of acting (hamming) for the picture.

Ruby has homework too, and other stuff

Kuya Theo is starting school. Ruby very obviously is looking forward to the day when she starts school. Just tonight, Ruby came into the office while I was on the computer and said, "Mama, can you get me a pencil? I need to do my homework." I got her a pencil and we worked on her pre-kindergarten book together. I tell you what though, there aren't too many pages in there that she is ready for. But we did look at the alphabet page, and we sang the alphabet while pointing at the letters. Predictably, Ruby got a little confused during the LMNOP section. I think tonight was the first night she realized that the section is about actual letters, not unlike the rest of the song.

The other night our friends Sheena, Mak, Thevy, and Sothea came over. (If I don't spell those names right Sheena is bound to let me know.) Ruby was wearing her BFF necklace that Addy Patty gave her, and in a moment of generosity offered to let Thevy wear it for a little while. Ruby forgot to ask for it back, but didn't realize it until a few days later when she was looking for her necklace. I heard Ruby and Theo talking about it in the hallway, and at one point Theo said to Ruby, "It was your best friends necklace...oh no, does this mean Thevy gets to be Addy Patty's friend now?" All is well though. Apparently somebody remembered to take off the necklace because it was on the shelf in the living room.

Well, since I can't find another opportunity, I'm going to post some Allagash pictures. It really deserves a huge blog post, but it's so overwhelming that I think I'll just put some Ruby pictures up to get started.