Ruby's Seat, the Answer

I thought Lil might know. Apparently I was wrong, since she hasn't even hazarded a guess. Probably my mom would have had the best chance and she's the one who doesn't look at blogs. Here is the wider-angle view:

Ruby's Seat

Ruby has a favorite spot to sit. Can you tell where it is? (Those of you who have been to my house may have a slight unfair advantage.)

Already...

One day as I was busy doing things around the house while my children were playing, I noticed that it got very quiet. "My children are only ten months old," I thought to myself, "they can't have already figured out to be quiet when they're getting in trouble. Right?" But, just as a precaution, I headed off to discover their whereabouts. This is what I found:
Lil's afghan and yarn all over the floor and two girls, very quietly, fighting over my afghan book. I guess they have figured it out already. Needless to say, my crochet basket is no longer in the living room. Instead, a toy basket now sits where my crochet basket used to live. And, since Lil's afghan is no longer located where I can see it, it will probably never get finished. Sorry, Lil. (Just doing my part to make sure you move up here.)

As a related story, my children love the wastebasket. They especially love to empty the wastebasket. I usually stop them before they get too far, but on this occasion, they had the whole bag out and trash around the floor. Luckily it was mostly just junk mail. It could have been much worse. In the first picture you see their "caught" looks.
But is there any remorse? Oh, no, it's all fun and games.

Cuteness

I just heard Cora laughing and looked over to see what was so funny. She had a blanket and was playing peek-a-boo with herself in the mirror. So cute.

Hobbies

While we were at Grandpa & Grandma's house, the girls loved the swing. Well, Cora loved it from the start. Ruby was a little hesitant the first try. But she liked it the second time around.





















Cora loved Shag (the rocking horse). She started rocking as soon as I put her on. I've never seen a baby figure out a rocking horse that fast. But she has always liked to rock.

Cora's Hairstyles

Janina put her headband on Cora one day. It was very cute:

Here's another, quite different, headband look:

Ruby's reaction to the second hairstyle:

Shark Fan

This stuffed shark is by far Cora's favorite toy. She got it from a fish pond at Ray's work party. She drags it all over the house with her. She gets very excited when she finds it. And she gets far more upset when Ruby steals her shark than any other toy. When I told my mom about Cora's shark she said, "Derek should be happy, there's another shark fan in the family."

Ray's Birthday

This was a very hard card to make. The girls weren't very cooperative when it came to tracing their hands.

Ray's dam cake.
In the picture on the right you can see that there are fish swimming IN the lake, not just on top.









We had a few friends over for dinner.

Ray

"25" pictures to show why I love you.

You shaved.

You work hard.





















Family is important to you.





















You're such a wonderful dad. Remember how tiny the girls used to be?







































You like to have fun.


















You play along.












You're willing to help. Even if you do put the girls' clothes on backwards. I know, why would anyone put buttons in the back?












You're resourceful.









You get better looking every day. ;-)












I love you!!