Ruby is 2!!

Me: "Ruby, how old are you?"
Ruby: "I twoooooo!" (in the most excited voice possible)

Oh my goodness, I could just eat this girl up. She is just too cute for her own good. She turned two on May 22! Can you believe it?! Yeah, me neither!! My baby is not so much of a baby anymore. I love this age so much. She is too funny with all the little things she says these days. Her favorite things to say lately are "I did it!!!", "Need help!", "Watch!" (and then she'll do something funny), "(insert food item here) too?" (when Lucy is eating something Ruby wants). She'll also say "I happy!" several times a day, so sweet. Today when I was getting her out of her car seat for church she wiggled her legs and said "I excited!" Trey also does this thing with her where he says "Guess what...chicken butt!" So now she's learned, he'll say "Guess what?" and she'll say "Chicken pie" or "Chicken tie (meaning thigh)" or basically "chicken" and then anything she feels like saying. Then it turns into a game with everyone.

She was so cute on her birthday. I hung up a bunch of decorations, balloons, streamers, and happy birthday signs the night before so when she woke up it would be a surprise. She was so happy! She kept saying "My birthday!" and jump up and down excitedly. :)

Here is a list of her current favorites:

Food: yogurt n berries (only blueberries for Rubes)

Color: purple

Movie: Curious George

TV show: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

Song: "Top of the World (Hey!)" by Imagine Dragons and "Happy" by Pharrell Williams

Book: Milo's Special Words and anything by Sandra Boynton

Place: This girl loves going to ALDI, it's kind of funny. Also loves the library, to visit the fishies.

Things to do: riding her strider bike (she's rocking it!), playing pretend with Lucy, dancing, singing in the karaoke machine, painting, playing with playdoh, playing outside in the yard, helping mom with anything, finding "pollies" (potato bugs), say hi to the neighborhood dogs and cats, painting toenails, and the list goes on.

This girl can count to 10 and recognizes all the numbers, although 6 and 9 confuse her sometimes. She recognizes quite a few of her letters. She loves to give kisses and hugs to me throughout the day. It melts me every time. She loves to play and be silly. She gets so excited about everything, it makes me smile. She loves to wrestle with Lucy and puts up with a lot. She almost always has a cute little smile on her face. She is definitely more mischievous than Lucy ever was. It's really hard to say no to her with those big blue eyes of hers, and she knows it. Little stinker! I'm still sticking with my puppy analogy with her because it is pretty spot on. She is such a little puppy (and Lucy is definitely our cat).

She brings us so much joy everyday. I'm so thankful I get to be her mama. I seriously don't know how we got so lucky so have 2 such special little girls in our family. Being their mom is an honor, even though sometimes they drive me bonkers. :) The happy moments always melt away all of the bad ones.

Here are a few of my favorites of Ruby over the past year...

Trying out her birthday scooter from Gma Robbie and Gpa Chuck

This girl always has the most glorious and voluminous bed head!

 Using sissy's camera

 She always has that special little sparkle in her eye

 Love this girl in some piggies. Posing by our thankful tree this past year.

Crazy dress up time with Lucy aka "fashion show"

 And of course some sister wrestling matches are a must.

 Rompers are my favorite on this girl.

 

 This is the oldest one, not too soon after we moved to Cleveland. Her hair has grown a lot!

Happy 2nd birthday Miss Ruby!!!