Day 495 - Hanging Out at Great-Grammy's Place

Day 494 - Ruth Likes to Help Push, But is Easily Distracted

Day 494 - At the waterfront with Great-Grammy

This summer, again, we brought Ruth out to visit my grandmother in LA (her great-grandmother). While we'd been dreading the trip a bit, she did pretty well on the flight over for such a little one, and did excellently well on the flight back (the crayons were a good choice - she sat on the floor in front of the seat and colored for a while), even if our daycare did have cause to regret the kidney beans (she LOVES kidney beans) we let her snack on on the way home.

My aunt and uncle were nice enough to let us stay with them, and though Great-Grammy was feeling a bit under the weather (get well soon), we got to see her most afternoons. One day, I made a big brunch to celebrate (belatedly, but jointly) Ruth and Great-Grammy's 4/17 birthday, and then the next we went out to the marina to walk along the water.

Days 489 & 490 - tomatoes!

Ruth really likes tomatoes. She will eat them whole, like apples. Witness her destroying a waspanimapandoimdm peach, and then a costiluto fiorentino from our garden.

Day 486 - Paint

In preparation for the flight out to see great-grammy, I bought Ruth some crayons and paper for the plane. But, since there was a buy-two-get-one-free deal on coloring stuff, I also picked her up some little crayola auto-filling paint brushes. We figured they were too messy for the plane, so we let her go at them at home, with predictable results.

Day 479 - Park

Though we live nearby, and I head up there to work out on a (err... semi-) regular basis, we'd never actually been to the YMCA's playground before. It's quite nice (even though there is zero shade), and even has the cool springy surfacing that the place up in NJ near Connie and Sharon had.

Ruth, of course, was mostly in it for the climbing and swinging.

Day 466 - More Sitting in Chairs (and Reading)

 

Day 459 - More Artscape!

Lest you think that Artscape is all about the puppets (we didn't make it to the dancers b/c of the crowds), rest assured that it also offers many other hilariously fun family activities, such as eating corn and sitting on chairs.

 
 
 

(She sat on chairs while Mom and Dad listened to Ellen Cherry, so we all got to do something fun)

Day 459 - Marionettes!

Day 453 - Drum

Ruth with the drum I brought her home from Ghana. She seems to think that it is about equally bang-on-able as, well, pretty much anything else. I hope she'll be more into it when she's older. Hey, uncle David, if she follows in our footsteps and goes to McGill, she's totally all set for bongo park!