It's pretty much all about her around here...

Somebody is very bored with getting her picture taken. Ruth enjoys trying new foods like limes and licorice :) yummy. She looked like she had just killed and eaten a small animal after the licorice. We went in to the doctor to get Ava's Kindergarten shots a few weeks ago. (Ava was so brave because Aunt Em came with us and held her. Thanks Em!) We weighed Ruth again while we were there and she was still holding strong at 15 lbs. I'm pretty sure 5 lbs of that is just cheeks...I guess if you were to count both sets of checks it would be more like 10 lbs.;)

If you stand her up by something she will hold on and just stand there. She's pretty happy just sitting and playing and grabbing anything she can get her hands on. But I do think she wants to be on the move, she tries crawling by doing this funny little butt scrunchy move, which doesn't get her anywhere. If you hold her hands she will take little drunken steps. She is a busy little thing.  She likes to chatter and squeak and squawk. She now says, dada, mama, and baba. She also does this funny little fake cough. Sometimes she will wave bye-bye and clap and put her little hands together above her head to "be the big girl". Usually she does all of these one right after another to show off. One day Grandma Barker brought over Em's new baby bunnies for the kids to hold and we were all oohing and awing about how cute the bunnies were and Ruthy suddenly began doing her tricks over and over again, as if to say: Guys look at me! I'm cute too!... She's a funny girl. If you tell her to dance and dance, she will jump and jump. Her favorite thing right now is being scared by Luke and Ava.  They will stomp around a corner and growl and it makes her about jump out of her skin and she squeals and giggles. Oh and I am happy to report that she is happy to be held by anyone now! Grandma Patsy flew in for a visit and she was worried that Ruth wouldn't want to go to her. But when she picked her up she just laid her head on grandma's shoulder and smiled and grabbed at her face, it was really sweet.