Effective advertising...

So we were on a road trip to McCall, ID and we stopped at Arby's in Pullman for lunch. Right on the counter by the register was a Plexiglas display case with some pastries inside. Ruby said, "I'll have that for lunch!", pointing to the pastry.

"Oh no you won't!" I said.

"But Mom, the commercials for those are BEGGING me to eat them!"

Sisters...

Ruby: Alice, do you want to play Queen?
Alice: Yeah!
Ruby (eating her lunch): Okay...SEEERVANT, I need waaaater!
Alice: Okay, your highness! (heading for the water)

Me: Alice, what do you want to be when you are big?
Alice: I wanna be Ruby.

Me: Ruby, tell me some reasons why you will be sad to give kitty away. (this story is another post)
Ruby: I told her we'd be together for eternity!

Ruby made a newspaper today, as she recently decided she wants to be a journalist (think Kit Kitteridge). It reads, "Mikel Jacsin is ded. He had a hart tac and had to go to the doctr."

Family Win, Lose or Draw...

On Sunday, Ruby had the idea to draw pictures on the easel and have the rest of the family guessing what they were drawing.

We had a lot of fun, mostly due to Alice. She was the first artist, and I told her to draw a sun. So the entire game, when it was her turn to tell someone what to draw, she'd suggest a sun. Eventually we could guess her suggested drawings even before the artist started drawing.



Then Alice was drawing "a little girl" and as she went to town on the hair, Ruby said, "are you drawing Oprah, because Oprah's hair looks like that."
The appropriately placed circles were first "nipples" but then when we all chuckled, she said they were rips in her shirt. Wow, that shirt needs to be replaced!

At your service...

Ruby is really into servants. Really, it was bound to happen to a little girl so cued into the whole princess thing. Certainly not from any personal servant experience at our house! She volunteers to be the servant, "and you tell me what to do," when she is playing with her friends.

Anyway, we were out to lunch the other day, and there was someone cleaning the table next to ours. She told him, "Wow, you are really good at cleaning tables, you should be a servant!"

I was really embarrassed, because it could sound insulting, but I assume he knew she holds the life of a servant in high regard. Anyway, love my little Ruby's mind.