In 2008, shortly after she began talking, Steve and I started capturing Ruby’s funny quotes in a Twitter account (@areyoubewhy if you’d like to follow it). Here are the tweets from 2012 – all are her exact words.
| Papa, how did you send email in the olden days? | 1/4/2012 |
| So who actually releases the Kraken? | 1/5/2012 |
| I love getting passport photos. I try to look like I mean business, so they don’t mess with me. | 1/7/2012 |
| I love pork belly, you know. | 1/13/2012 |
| Flowers don’t poop. | 1/14/2012 |
| Mama, this bullet train reminds me of how fast I was skiing. | 2/26/2012 |
| Let’s practice headbanging! | 2/29/2012 |
| Papa! Playing lego made me feel better! | 3/18/2012 |
| I know REAL pretend karate. | 4/12/2012 |
| You know what? Hot water has a flavor. Kind of a yucky flavor. | 5/12/2012 |
| Can we look it up? [Me: Sorry, there are so many answers to that…] That is totally worth looking up! [The question: “Why do we exist?”] | 5/21/2012 |
| I want to do so many things when I grow up. I want to be everything! Except the president. | 5/23/2012 |
| If I drop any corn on the table, you can eat it, but you have to give me one kernel. [Why?] It’s the corn tax! | 5/24/2012 |
| When I grow up I want to be an astronaut. I want to go to the moon and mars. And Jupiter. No, wait, that’s a gas giant. | 6/2/2012 |
| I’m your pet baby hamster. So I’m very curious, and I love art. | 6/9/2012 |
| I’m called Werewolf Scientist. That’s my lab name. | 6/12/2012 |
| What do you call it when your mind explodes? | 6/18/2012 |
| What’s your favorite thing about an octopus? | 7/18/2012 |
| When I grow up, I wanna be a police person… but in outer space. | 8/2/2012 |
| So Papa, how was your day at [air quotes] “work”? | 9/13/2012 |
| I wish it was tomorrow. Because then I’d have new feelings! | 9/21/2012 |
| How much do I like V-8? One hundred percent. | 9/24/2012 |
| Space would be a great dancing place. That’s a great idea! I should tell NASA. | 10/2/2012 |
| I wonder, I wonder, I wonder… if you read too much, do you become the place that you’re reading? | 10/6/2012 |
| I’m part ninja, part fish, part love, and part punching girl. The rest of me is normal. | 10/10/2012 |
| Guess what? Gertrude is at Bebe’s house! And, Oong Goong Goong turned into Gertrude. | 11/1/2012 |
| When I talk to the monsters, I tell them I’ll give them peace and darkness. | 11/15/2012 |
| Who is your second favorite person? | 11/29/2012 |
| This is my love sword. It gives people extra love. | 11/29/2012 |