Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Oh please God...

GUESS WHO???







Here are some silly Ruthie antics:
  • She found a stick out in the back yard and has been using it lately as a shepherds cane. She pretends that Tucker and Buddy are her lambs, and she shoos them where she wants them to go. Then she takes a hand full of sand and sprinkles it about saying she is feeding her hens. I was going to mow the lawn as she yells out "watch out for my hens!"
  • Then today she was in her swimsuit cause she had been playing in our kiddie pool and was cold. She came in and told me she prayed and asked God to make the sunshine on her so she could get warm, and then it did, and she prayed that the "dogs would stop just drinking the pool water", and they did. A while later I was out there and she was standing just inside the shadow of our big maple tree when I heard her praying, "Oh please God, make the sunshine on me now, so I can be warm, oh please, God" then she stepped out into the sun. I didn't know how to respond so I went in the house and snickered quietly.
  • Earlier I got to see her throw a little temper tantrum just like Mommy did the day before. I heard her yelling and banging something outside, so I went to see. She was throwing her swing around. I told her to cool it and to come here and have a seat. When I asked what was going on she said, (exactly the words I said) "I hate these dogs!" Woops, I knew then I had to explain how wrong I was and those were not good words to use. She continued telling me how mad they were making her for drinking the pool water, and how they were wasting it!

Oh my Ruthie, she is so sweet. She keeps me on my toes. I pray God would help me to teach her to be better than myself. These are some silly things that I just wanted to record so I can remember them for a long time and tell her later on.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

I'm Back!

Lizzie loves the puppies, but she is NOT gentle. She was pulling flesh and hair the other day and to scold her I showed her how it feels and I pulled her hair a bit. This would have sent Ruthie bawling and upset that she hurt the puppy, but Lizzie is different, she had a funny little smirk the whole time and never felt any remorse, she has done it several times and each time I scold her I pull a little harder hoping for some reaction, but just a smirk, then I have to hide my face because I am laughing!

Matt was able to splice our cord and now I can use the computer again. I put a bunch of pictures on Flick r, some of the 4th of July Kiddie Parade in Coeur d' Alene. We went with Jean, Kathy, Asia, Maya, Josh and Jessica. We got to walk with our good friends Stephanie, Isaac and Havilah too. It was a fun day!
The girls got a little cold last week and it is still tagging on a tiny bit. Hopefully this will be all we get for the summer. Lizzie is getting better with her words. I can tell many of her words even if others have no idea. The funniest is "uh uh" like how we would say for "no" but hers means "yes." I think she is either trying to say "uh huh" or "yes please" like the same inflections and stuff. It is fine with me cause I understand it without even thinking about it, but when we visit other people it throws them for a loop that she is saying one thing and meaning something totally different. She also says "baby," "buh" for bottle, "puppy," "Buddy," "Tucker," "Te tee" for Ruthie, "Go!," "nyo nyo" is no no, "ni ni" -nigh night, "boom" when a car goes by, and I particularly like when she says "have some" which means hungry, or wants a particular food we have. She says "mmbuh" which I am not sure what this says but it is very randomly said but lately I am thinking it is Grandpa, because she says it on the toy phone and after talking about Daddy often. She say what sounds like "why" for slide, and "wee" for swing. She is a dare devil too, she climbs the ladder to the slide and sits there until I come to catch her coming down, sometimes yelling at the top of her lungs "Maaamaaaa."
Ruthie likes to tell stories, she has a very active imagination and is always talking to me, it wears me out sometimes. She likes to say scenarios, "if I ..." and they are so far fetched I don't even know what to say back but "hmmm."

Here is Ruthie at our friend Charis' birthday tea party, she made them each a tutu and it was very cute. All the little girls drinking tea and wearing tutu's, except Lizzie she squealed once when another girl's tutu touched her. Doesn't Ruthie look beautiful here, she is getting so big.