Happy 2nd Birthday to Ruby!

 Ruby turned 2 on Black Friday this year. She loves Minnie Mouse, so that was the theme. It was so fun to have Brian and Eila here to celebrate too!

Ruby is such as sweet member of our family. She has so much energy and zest for life. She is pretty mellow until she decides that she wants something and then, it is going to happen. Period. She's a little stubborn that way. She loves her big sister and thinks that she is just as big as she is. Ruby thinks she can do anything and she probably can. She tightrope walks on the couch and jumps from piece of furniture to piece of furniture. She also can climb just about anywhere.

She always walks around the house saying "Grace (or Mommy or Daddy), where are you?" in her cute little voice. She loves her Daddy and can't wait for him to come home and play every night. She also is very concerned for the well being of Ben - if he's crying, she'll yell out "baby dying! Baby dying!" to alert me to his crying (she hasn't quite mastered the "c" sound yet). It never fails to give me a heart attack for a little moment! She also can count to 10 and sing most of the alphabet song. She loves to sing and sings a lot in the car, both made up songs and real songs. She also loves Barney and loves to sing along. She also puts everything in her mouth from dirt (whenever she comes in from playing outside she inevitably has telltale dirt around her mouth) to her blanket tags (those poor things are looking pretty nasty these days) to toys. I think she sucks on Minnie's nose and her monkey's tail when there's not a blanket tag around when she's falling asleep. I am constantly reminding her to not put things in her mouth. So far we haven't found anything that's gone through to her diaper and I hope it'll stay that way!

She is so loving and gives hugs and kisses all the time. She thinks it's so funny to kiss Mommy on her ears and all over her face (and Mommy sure does love it!!). She also loves to love on Benji, but we're still working on being soft with him.

She adds so much fun and life to our family. We sure do love our little Ruby!! Happy birthday sweet girl!!