Ruth and Caroline continue to be BFFs. Trent and I often look at each other and ask, “What did Caroline do before Ruth came home?” The answer is probably “puzzles” which she has scarcely touched in nine months. They are always together, playing, running, chasing, bathing.
Ruth loves doing whatever the big girls are doing! Look at those amazing fine motor skills she is learning by stringing fruit loops!
She watched history happen when the Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl. This is how she felt the next day when she was still tired. She had asked to get down from lunch and I told her to wait. She completely lost her mind, pulled her ponytails out, and sobbed. Needless to say, she had a great nap that day.
We celebrated Valentine’s Day with lots of snuggles and kisses.
She ate and highly enjoyed spaghetti at the Youth Group’s spaghetti dinner.
Took her bike for a walk. She’s not quite tall enough to sit on the seat-hopefully by summer she’ll get it!
Played in a box.
Celebrated Chinese New Year!
Told her daddy how to open the butter properly.
Played “dead” in her glow-in-the-dark skeleton pajamas.
Played memory with daddy. She is starting to learn the rules to some games and seems to enjoy them!
Wore the most adorable panda shirt that was gifted to her from another little girl, Finlay, who was also a Peace House / foster baby at the same time as Ruthie. I’m blessed to be in contact with two families with girls from similar situations as Ruth.
We ate the first ice cream cone of the season which ended poorly for this girl.
Ruth looks angry here, but I promise she was having fun! They were playing school. Maggie and Abbey were the teachers and Ruth and Caroline the students. It cracks me up when they play school in the evenings since they’re in school all day.
Ruthie chilling at Aunt Audrey’s house while the big cousins played pool. She was literally the only smal kid left in the basement. I went to check on her and found her like this; totally absorbed in her play phone.
These two love playing “mommy”. This day I was grandma and was babysitting all their dollies. The doll babies wouldn’t stop crying because they only wanted grandpa. When I asked if he was at work Carrie said, “No. He’s at the hos-ba-ble because somebody shooted his hand.” Never a dull moment!
This was their shadow monster.
Ruthie loves books! Isn’t she so sweet reading to herself at the library?
I wanted a 9 months home picture of Ruth but she was more interested in having pictures with her sisters.
In fact, she turned her chair around until I agreed to do a sisters picture.
She is full of sass and big personality. Her speech is slowly but surely improving. She still has limited sounds that she is capable of saying but she makes up for it in volume. We’re still working on getting her to understand that just because she says it louder doesn’t mean it’s more intelligible.
This is her “not impressed” face.
And her “cheese” face.
Happy nine months home, little deer!
We love you, so much!
And, she’s off! We’re so excited to see what joys the next month brings.
Special thanks to my mother-in-law who has helped out multiple times this month when we’ve had so many appointments for speech transition and when Ruth was sick. I know sometimes people think I am a super-mom but I’m really not. I have a very supportive family who are truly amazing! I wouldn’t be who I am without them.
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