Ruby's exciting news....

"I can do anything!" -Ruby Sophia Arnold
That's right, girl! Today, Ruby asked me to share with those of us who know and love her, that she has added another skill to her repertoire...
so, now, she's a reader, writer, kung-fu master (according to her, not her teacher yet), artist, scientist, treasure hunter, interpretive dancer, budding storyteller, almost doctor (she'll be one when she is 6),etc....and NOW (drum roll please): Shoelace tie-er!!!!!
Congrats Ruby!
P.S. Note to self and others-BEWARE! Try not to take a phone call when one of your children has found a vial of glitter. Bad idea. Glitter does not clean up easily, especially when your children (yes both got into it) use it on paper (without glue) and run laps around the living room holding the open vial- My guess, if unicorns threw up, it would like a spew of glitter-that's what my house looks like-unicorn vomit everywhere!

Clean those sickies away.....

I don't want to go too long...so I'm back too...

I have been held up in a den of sickness for the past 12 days and I am close to insane.....(wasn't far away prior to the "worst summer cold" I have ever witnessed. Ruby has been dog-sick for going on two weeks. Her cough is atrocious and just when you think she might be kickin' it, she gets hit with a eye infection yesterday and an ear infection today. Poor girl....that's the hard part, watching her feel like crud....and not to mention of course I caught the sickness as well-so double crud. She is such a trooper though and although I sound like a broken record about blowing her nose, she only snaps back every once in awhile-poor girl. Other than watching brain-breaking amounts of movies and reading and working on prizes for auntie Amy, we have been trying to rest.
Miles got the sickness for a "normal" period of cold time. Now he just attacks Ruby (and attacks and attacks), making her cry and the snot flow.....What's with the aggression Miles? YOU are a LOVER not a FIGHTER, please remember that....
I'm going to attempt to put a picture on this thing, to beautify my words....here goes.