Day 1166 - Dear Future Ruth, We Were Not Poor When You Were a Kid and I Did Nothing to Encourage (or Discourage) the Activity Depicted Below

Ruth decided it would be fun to scoot around the house on a baking sheet.

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Day 1113 - Practicing Baseball for Granddad

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Day 1065 - Heave Ho!

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Whenever I am around Ruth and Eleanor, they play nicely. But I hear they mix it up at school - for a while, I could pretty much count on finding either Ruth or Eleanor on the "red" circle at school when I got there (depending on who won?).

Day 1060 - I Climbed the Tree Myself!

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Day 991 - Zoo^2

So, it turns out that while I had been assuming that Groupon was pretty much some scam thing, Melissa was actually paying attention, which has led to us getting a really good deal on a membership to the Baltimore zoo. Which we promptly used.

I have photos of, like, animals and crap on the digital camera, but for now I've only got my phone. So let me show you instead Ruth's second favorite part of the zoo - their small playground. After going once (and seeing her first favorite thing, penguins), she insisted that we return the next day (we = me; Melissa had the good sense to stay inside where it was warm) to go to the playground she'd seen on the way in.

In the rain.

On the neat side, Ruth can now climb a rope ladder!

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