I typed this at the end of February. I was probably going to add the bigger girls but didn't. After reading through it though it I don't want to lose it so I will publish it as it is and write about the big girls separately. I also changed the title of it.
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| Ruth tracing Roberta's hand. She loves to have this done to her hands and feet. |
Ruth is two and a half weeks away from two. She knows what she wants and is good at making demands and threats. We call her a terrorist. She is mostly happy and good and cute and fun. She talks a lot. She loves hot cocoa, milk and any form of sugar. I am having a hard time getting her to eat good food. On Sundays when we are going to and coming from family Sunday dinner and the other kids want the radio on she wants us to sing the ABC's. So we usually do. Over and over and over again. This week we had the radio on and tried singing the ABC's to the tune of whatever song was on. I don't know how much she liked it but it was entertaining for everyone else! She loves Minnie and Mickey Mouse and Daisy Duck. She loves getting to watch Mickey Mouse clubhouse at Karen's house. She also loves "Nayborhood" which is Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, a cartoon version of Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood. Her favorite books are ones with Minnie Mouse in them or other mice, like Maisy or the If You Give A Mouse A Cookie mouse. She likes to draw or write and loves to have her hands and feet traced. This saves us in sacrament meeting. She likes me the best right now in life but is usually the worst for me. Lucy holds a close second and she thinks she is as big as Daryl for sure. They love each other but sometimes she just acts her age and Daryl can't take any more. She is trying to give up napping but still could really use it.
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| Daryl playing with Grandpa Egbert's flashlights and head lams and preparing Evelyn and Roberta for the "long" walk home in the dark from the cottage. He got Evelyn, myself and maybe Roberta to wear those head lamps. |
Daryl... Is fun and so different from the girls that he just keeps us on our toes. He has a really great personality that seems so much bigger than him. It is a "life of the party" kind of personality. His imagination is fantatic. He has these "meat cats" that he has come up with that are amazing. He talks about things being nauicturnal and gravity and other things that I wonder 'Where did he learn about that from?' He loves to dig and all heavy equipment and trucks and machinery and petty much knows them all and will correct me when I call them the wrong name. He loves to be a helper and good listener. He is mostly good to his to sisters but is still a brother and know so well how to push just the right button. He adores his dad and grandpas. I often say he puts up with all of the ladies in his life till he can get some guy time. He is so good with Evelyn and Roberta and their neighbor Karen. Just tonight he helped get them to their house from my parents and then stayed and said he was going to "babysit them"
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