This is a long one, folks! She's changing like crazy!
- Her eyesight is amazing. She can spot a dog, plane, bird, squirrel, anything, like a mile away. She'll say, "Ooh! There's a puppy!" and it will take me like 30 seconds of looking before I spot the tiny black dog walking along the freshly asphalted road in the dead of night. One time we were driving and she said, very excitedly, "ICE!" I had no idea what the heck she was talking about and it took me a while before I spotted the ice machine at the gas station that we were near. How the heck does she even know what a freakin' ice machine is??
- Our conversations are entering the entertaining phase. This morning Heath took her to daycare and upon entering the car she noticed a paper pumpkin in the floor that she made: Ruby: (gasp!) "PUMPKIN!! Look daddy, there's bug on the pumpkin!" Heath: (trying desperately to see this bug she's talking about. turns out it was a teeeeeeny tiny gnat-again with the awesome eyesight!) "Yep, honey, there's a bug." Ruby: "I think he misses his mommy!"
- She has started saying, "That's 'gusting!" (disgusting) and "Oh my God!" and "No mam!" which I know she picked up from her daycare director. She likes to yell that last one at the cats a lot.
- She definitely requires less of my help. She refuses to let me help her wash her hair. If I ask if I can help she says, with authority, "NO! I help myself!"
- Bath time has become a favorite activity again. I can run some water, give her some bath paint and she will sit in there and play for like an hour. Heaven forbid she get any water in her eyes though. Goodness gracious, she will scream a scream so terrifying that (at first) it caused me to sprint to the bathroom at a speed I never knew I could accomplish.
she didn't like the funnel cake donut!! More for me :)
- She is becoming less inclined to let me take pictures of her outfits in the morning. Sad face! I usually take them with my phone and post them on Instagram (user name LaurieApplebyWilliams) but lately I've had to take them with my SLR because she will stand still for about .05 seconds, not nearly fast enough for my poor shattered iPhone to capture. I know she isn't going to let me take the photos forever but it is so cute to look back at them. Also, I imagine that if my parents had taken photos of me like that when I was a kid that I'd totally love them now.
- She can correctly identify several dinosaurs including T-rex and Triceratops (which she'll sometimes call "ceratops" or "cera"). Others she is very close. Brontosaurus is "little foot" or "long neck" and a pterodactyl is "flyer" or "Petri"
- She is hilarious. Just throwing this out there-we are pretty open about farts and that kind of stuff around here. She'll get this mischievous look on her face, fart, and then start to laugh hysterically. At the table one day she kept burping, pretty loud ones considering her age, H was giving her the "you'd better stop that" look. I was cracking up which only egged her on and resulted in "the look" being directed towards me. Of course we make her say excuse me and so far we haven't heard anything about her going crazy at daycare with the farting and burping so we're just rolling with it.
- Speaking of. She ran over to me the other day and said, "I want to hold you!" When I picked her up she got really quiet, looked at me, and then farted super loud and started giggling like mad. I swear, she knew that she was going to fart and she wanted to fart of me! Crazy girl.
- Leaves are "flowers" and she insists on gathering some each time she goes outside. I've cleaned countless leaves out of my back seat. And if there is a pumpkin within her (very vast) range of vision, she will tell you about it. Very loudly. Like oh my god a car is coming right for us! loud. I'm afraid she gets that from me.
- We had our first parent/teacher conference with the daycare director the other day. They are going to start allowing her to go into the preschool room for a few hours each day. The director approached me about it in a "I know you're probably sad that your baby is growing up, poor mama don't be sad" kind of way but when she asked me about it I was all like, "Hell yeah! Go ahead and start that transition!" Haha. Yes, it's hard to believe how fast the time has gone and that she's going to be three soon, but I'm not emotional about this particular transition. My only concern was when she brought up homework. I am definitely not down with my 3yo having homework. There is plenty of time for that later, right now she needs to play and be a nut. Turns out by homework she meant simple things that we could do at home to help her learn certain skillz...which we were already doing athankfyouverymuch :)
