What Does The Little Piggy Say?

Animals!

This afternoon, our sweet friend, Karen, called us to let us know a fall festival was going on down the street so we headed on over. It was great fun! Not only were there pony rides (!) but there was a petting zoo! Here are some shots as Ruby played with the animals.

Ruby and the goat

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease can I have a pony??????

Firefighters! Sheep!

So, I got a new camera and while I figure IT out, here are some photos that I got off the old one. We had a pretty exciting week. After the disease had run its course, we went out and made up for lost time. There were two, count'em TWO firefighter story times to attend, one at my branch and one at our neighborhood branch. It was really fun to see the firefighters in their gear and see the fire truck and engine up close (the truck holds the hose, the engine the ladder etc...I think that's what he said). Anyhoo...here's a picture of Ruby on the fire truck:

On Friday, we went to the Seattle Children's Theater production of "The Green Sheep" with Hank and his mum. This play was based on the book, "Where is the Green Sheep?" by Mem Fox and it was aimed at kids ages 1-4. Instant Hausfrau strongly recommended it and BOY am I glad we went! It was SO fun and Ruby was enthralled. It was the perfect environment and length for this age and they did such a great job with it. We were impressed! Unfortunately, my camera was being weird (hence, I had to get a new one!) so all the pics were kinda blurry but you get the idea.

Ruby with the Bed Sheep

Hank and Ruby smell the flowers together

Ruby pets the Green Sheep. He was sleeping the whole time!

All in all, a fun few days and time well spent after a weekend of being sick. Yay! More to come, my friends. More to come....

On the Mend

Well, after a few days of misery, Miss Ruby seems to be on the mend. Sunday was definitely the worst of it. She's pretty happy today albeit a little more clingy than usual. I'm keeping her out of circulation for another day at least just to be safe but it's looking good. Phew! And, I have almost figured out how to work the other camera so I'll be posting some pictures soon. I promise!

New words - all said as one word:

• Hereyougo
• Gracias
• Alldone
• theend
• wanbite?
• come!
• cheese!
• thankyou
• potty

And that's the news for now..........

Curse You Hand Foot and Mouth Disease!

Ruby has now succumbed to (what is apparently very common) hand, foot and mouth disease. One of her pals came down with it and Friday she woke up with one flushed cheek. She wasn't seemingly sick and ate and played and I didn't think much of it. However, Ruby's daddy insisted I call the doctor since I was going out that night and he didn't want to have to make "any trips to the emergency room." Well...secretly, I was thinking, "Ok Mr Nervous Nellie..." but I did it and took her in. Well, what do you know? She had a fever and a rash spreading on her cheek. Daddy intuition-1. Mommy intuition - 0.

The doctor (not our regular doc but he was awesome) gave me the usual info about watching the fever, dehydration etc. When I mentioned that the plan was I was going out that night he said it was no problem. And then, to make sure it was all good, he wrote out a prescription saying she had a viral infection and was 'eligible for daddy care.' Ha! So, I got to go see Air Supply (don't even comment - it totally ruled) and Ruby got some quality daddy time per the doctor's orders.

When I got home that night, around midnight. She was snuggled up with her pops in bed. She was awake so I gave her some tylenol and took her down to the couch to snuggle her. Then, without any fair warning thank-you-very-much, as we were lying there she proceeded to puke all over my shirt. Since it was a lost cause at that point, I just directed her projection to my shirt until she was done. I then cursed the fact that I was wearing a pullover sweatshirt...ugh. My gagging scared her and made her cry. I had puke in my hair, on my pj pants and on her blanket. It was not a good scene. I stripped down and went upstairs to enlist the help of the dad while I called the on-call nurse.

She was fine the rest of the night, sleeping with us and didn't make hardly another peep until she awoke at around 7 am. She looked a lot like Nick Nolte's mugshot with her wild sweaty hair but much much much MUCH cuter.

Yesterday she did ok but started getting slightly feverish towards the end of the day and, again, slept with us. We'll see how tonight goes. She is ok today if not a little more snuggly than usual. We are skipping the Obama Kids parade (sad) but she's just not up to par and I think we all need a little rest after the crazieness of the weekend.

Fun Firsts and Other Tidbits

Today Ruby sang her first song! I heard her saying, "Roundandround. Tooown!" over and over before I realized she was singing "The Wheels on the Bus." Later on today, she put her fists to her cheeks to do the "Baby on the bus goes, 'Whaa whaa whaa!'" I tried to capture it on my cellphone but she cleverly stopped performing once she saw a camera out.

One of my favorite reality show contestents and mommies, Laura Bennett, from Project Runway has written an article on parenting. She has 6 children and is always glamorous and cool as a cucumber. The article is called "Didn't I Feed You Yesterday?" I heart her.

In other news, a big RIP for my Canon Powershot camera. It was a graduation gift to me from Grandma Grace and it has served me well from trips overseas to thousands upon thousands of photos of all my girls. Thank you my little camera for all of the wonderful photos you have taken through the years. I bid you adieu. So, it goes without saying that there will be a short moratorium on pictures here at Ruby Shooz while I figure out how to use the other camera. More soon.

More Photos

Sorry for the lags in posting lately. It's been kinda crazy busy for some reason and I keep meaning to get to it and...well....that's my lame excuse. To get you by, here are some photos of our girl: