Blogging has gone way, way down on my priority list. But, since it is my only source for journaling, scrapbooking, and generally recording the history of my little family, I had to do a post. I have to record the toddlerhood of my little Ruby. She will only be 2 once--THANK GOODNESS! She is adorable, hilarious, talkative, independent, full of personality, and a complete TERROR! Maybe I'm not remembering completely, but I'm pretty sure she is my hardest toddler yet. I have had to put up a baby gate to block off my kitchen and front room, I've had to resort to locking the bathroom (because she would play with the toilet brush, play in the toilet bowl, or get in the bath and turn on the water if she got the chance), I've had to put child locks on all dresser drawers because she was using them to climb up on top of the dressers and up on TV stands, and if she is quiet for 10 minutes I have to immediately find her because she is almost ALWAYS doing something mischevious. I will need to repaint several of my rooms because she has colored all over them--to the point that Mr. Clean magic eraser can no longer save them. But, I think I will wait to repaint until she's at least 3!;)
She got a hold of an open bottle of baby powder (that was on the top of my tallest dresser) and showered two bedrooms with it. That was several months ago and I STILL see baby powder show up on our ceiling fans.
Oh yes, and she also never sleeps. She stays up until after 10pm every night and ends up coming into my bed by 5am every morning. I don't even know how to stop that. She shares a room with her 2 brothers, so I do whatever it takes to keep at least 2 out of 3 children asleep! It is wac-a-mole every night.But, Ruby is also adorable. She worships her Daddy. Every time he walks through the door she runs up to him, hugs him and YELLS "I missed you Daddy!"
She also just loves to hang with her brothers. She loves to run, swordfight, jump off of furniture, and do anything and everything they can do. She loves to play in the "snowmam," as she calls it (snow.) 
And my favorite Ruby-ism, is when she runs up to someone and says "Hi, it's me Ruby!" Today she ran into the chapel where my husband was already sitting in a bench and she yelled "Hi Daddy it's me Ruby!"
Yes she's a terror, but she is funny and adorable! I am trying to enjoy her, because I'm sure someday I will look back and miss this funny little toddler, someday when she's a teenager and doesn't want anything to do with me. But, at least when she's a teenager she won't be splashing in the toilet bowl.
5 comments:
Whew! You have your work cut out for you! Good thing she's funny and adorable to go along with the terror. :)
I love that..."it's me, Ruby." Too cute.
She is a beautiful little girl. It's a good thing toddlers are cute, because otherwise they wouldn't survive to see school age. I guess every stage has it's joys and it's challenges, but toddlerhood is certainly an exhausting one. Good luck and I'm glad you can see the funny and adorable side as well.
I have a feeling my little girl is going to be the same way. She is already more work than both my boys combined!
I absolutely love the baby powder picture. Ruby is beautiful!
Oh she is adorable. I'd have a hard time with that cute little face if I had to discipline her for her mischief! Good luck with that!
Tiff, I felt like you were describing Lucy to a T in this post... They would get into lots of trouble together. She gets into absolutely everything as well... And climbs everything like a little monkey. I feel your pain sister!
Most days I'm just praying I can make it til bed time. Then as soon as she is asleep, I miss her and want to go pick her up and rock her. It's a sick cycle really.
After relating to you, I'll also agree with you that Ruby is so adorable! I love her hair and her charisma just jumps out at you from her photos. :)
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