{"id":205,"date":"2008-11-12T17:14:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T00:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-11-12T17:16:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T00:16:40","slug":"recent-twitters-about-ruby-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/recent-twitters-about-ruby-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Twitters about Ruby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the interesting tweets from the last three months about Ruby. You&#8217;ll notice that we&#8217;ve added a new Twitter account for Ruby&#8217;s own words. (At the moment, we&#8217;re just choosing interesting quotes, but when she&#8217;s older she can choose what to say.) <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: If you think it would be better to post Ruby&#8217;s tweets (quotes) separately, please say so in the comments. <\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Canoeing with Ruby in the Arboretum, one of my favorite places. I&#8217;ve been wanting to take her here her whole life and finally we&#8217;re here.<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yec8ch\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Note: it&#8217;s difficult to be a patient parent when you&#8217;re REALLY REALLY hungry.<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5novps\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 13<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">Kate<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Inspired by Olympic gymnasts, Ruby tried (&amp; succeeded) to hang from a bar and get her feet, then knees, over the bar.  Many excited repeats!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 13<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Somersaults make it better!!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 13<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Who wants to see Ruby&#8217;s gymnastic feats, inspired by the Olympics? She&#8217;s obsessed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1525059\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1525059<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 18<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby&#8217;s deep into the incessant questioning (why why why) phase.  It&#8217;s as annoying as I had feared.  Can anyone tell me how long this lasts?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 19<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby is potty training &amp; we&#8217;re going out for the 1st time with her in undies. I&#8217;m terrified &amp; expecting failure but have to start somewhere<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 21<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I&#8217;m just stirring ya. Here&#8217;s some stirredness.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 21<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Wandering around the sculpture park with Ruby and watching the ships and trains go by.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 22<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby and I are doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/parks\/healthyparks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy Parks Run<\/a> around Green Lake tomorrow (9:30am). Anyone else?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 24<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Woke up early this morning to take Ruby down to Green Lake from some fishing &amp; pbj sandwiches. No fish, though.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 24<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Danger Mouse cartoons. Ruby cries whenever something bad happens to their car. She loves their car.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 25<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I wish I could have a life. Where is my life now?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 25<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">A woman drenched in old-lady perfume insisted on a hug\/kiss from Ruby today. Somehow the stench has transferred to ME. Can&#8217;t get rid of it!!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 26<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">At a playground watching Ruby totally pwn an older &amp; bigger kid at climbing up the big-kid jungle gym.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 29<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I&#8217;m going to Alaska! And I&#8217;m coming right back. There were some things there that were bad, so I didn&#8217;t touch them.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Aug 29<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Tried teaching Ruby the don&#8217;t-go-on-the-blue-carpet-because-it&#8217;s-water-and-the-sharks-will-get-you game. When the sharks got me, Ruby cried.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 01<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">You only eat sandwiches, you don&#8217;t BE sandwiches.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 02<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">We might hear more flunder. But it won&#8217;t be too loud. It won&#8217;t rumple. It&#8217;s gonna be OK for us.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 02<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby and I are off to our first kid circus class! I hope it lives up to my high expectations.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 02<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sancaseattle.org\" target=\"_blank\">Circus class<\/a> is AWESOME. No stupid songs, no dumb games, just playing\/working on the equipment. Ruby loved it.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 03<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">At Ruby&#8217;s 1st day of preschool! I&#8217;ll be lurking all day, but next week she&#8217;ll be on her own. She was excited but had a nervous moment too.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 03<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I&#8217;m going somewhere to stink. Can I stink somewhere? No people this way because I&#8217;m stinking it.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">[Mama said: &#8220;What is one thing that is really stinky?&#8221;]   Leopards!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Don&#8217;t step on my heebie jeebies!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Even better than winning our soccer division: tonight, Ruby pooped on the potty!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 06<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">At a Recess Monkey concert with the family. Ruby likes it but is mostly into doing somersaults &amp; attempted handstands on the grass.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 07<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Going to seize the day and go swimming with the family at Mounger Pool&#8217;s last day of the season. Colds and sniffles be damned!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 07<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Loved the huge grin on Ruby&#8217;s face as she went down the big slide at the pool by herself.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 08<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby jumped happily into preschool today, and I&#8217;m off to my first soccer clinic (hoping to finally improve my offensive skills).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 08<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">My poop is a frog &#8211; it&#8217;s drinking up my pee. And it camed out of me.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 09<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby is deep in her &#8220;why&#8221; phase. When she asked &#8220;why do we have hands?&#8221; I had to resist starting with a backgrounder in evolutionary theory.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">All the constantly snacking toddlers are corrupting Ruby. Hard to keep saying no when she&#8217;s the only one in the group w\/o a steady supply.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">This week, Ruby is all about pretending to be animals. So far, she&#8217;s been a cat, pig, snake, bunny, bear, and dog (her current favorite).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Heading to Discovery Park to do some &#8220;hiking&#8221; with Ruby before frisbee. She&#8217;ll be carrying her own small backpack and sporting hiking boots.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Today we learned about devil&#8217;s club. Luckily the contact was minor so nobody was very traumatized.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">We should go on a scary ride. I like the scary ones. Now is the time!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I am cooling it down so it doesn&#8217;t stinkotronic you.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Awesome family day: Puyallup Fair (Ruby&#8217;s first coaster ride!), steak &amp; wine in the backyard, a bunch of fruit picking. Even mowed the lawn!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 24<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Wednesday nights are awesome because that&#8217;s when Mama and Papa crack a bottle of wine and laugh at all the funny things Ruby says.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 24<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ding a long a long.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 24<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Once upon a time, there was Ruby. And then BOOM!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 26<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I like to jump on snakes. They&#8217;re actually not horses.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 28<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">In Alaska they have sharks. And they&#8217;re out the window<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">[Guy selling stuff outside Safeway: &#8220;How&#8217;s it going, sweetheart?&#8221;]   I&#8217;m actually not a sweetheart.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">OMG! Ruby is picking apart her spinach nuggets so she can eat just the spinach inside! Is this child even related to me?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby has an imaginary friend. I&#8217;m kinda wigged out, because this is how horror films start.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Sep 30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">She&#8217;s Kalaka-laka &amp; she&#8217;s not pretend, she&#8217;s real. She&#8217;s a roof-flier. She has a hotair balloon &amp; she has goong. I named her Oonggoonggoong.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 02<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I want to be a men. I don&#8217;t want to be a women. Just because. I&#8217;m a Ruby. I don&#8217;t want to be a Ruby women.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 03<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby and I, both feeling a bit sick, are having a cozy day at home in our sweats. See you next week, frisbee folks.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 04<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">When Ruby comes down from her nap we&#8217;re going to go outside and harvest our grapes. Then we&#8217;re going to make grape juice and grape pie.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 04<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Good news is, Ruby seems to like sea scallops as much as me. Bad news is, that means I had to give her one of mine.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">While Kate was out getting tea I made a &#8220;thunder machine&#8221; with Ruby: chestnuts rattling inside two metal pie plates. Kate was not impressed.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Guess what? Nobody pees in their undies. Except alligators.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 06<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">At preschool, this week&#8217;s letter is C. I dressed Ruby in a Canada shirt and instructed her to say &#8220;I&#8217;m Canadian!&#8221; any time it came up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 07<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby ended up dressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/gallery\/v\/Kate+and+Steve\/Ruby\/2008_Photos\/2008-10-October\/2008-10-07_punky02.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\">kind of punk<\/a> today, although that wasn&#8217;t what I had in mind when I started dressing her. I like it anyway.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 08<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">In order to make a house, you need a hammer and a pliers and a bleeding sun.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 13<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I sing the furikake song, and it&#8217;s a sad song. At the end you sing ABCD. You sing onk onk, then ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 14<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Unbearably proud of Ruby for being able to find Mongolia, Russia, Australia, Canada, the US, &amp; Madagascar on her world map placemat.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">There&#8217;s a kid inside a bubble flying in the sky. She changed green and then to blue and red and then she&#8217;s done flying. One kid married her.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I don&#8217;t need privacy. My poop is not stinky.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 18<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Taking Ruby to the U District farmer&#8217;s market, then canoeing in the arboreturm.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 18<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kayaking with Ruby was awesome. We saw turtles! Now I&#8217;m taking a break in the sunny backyard while goat curry simmers on the stove.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 22<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby got a haircut today but I think it&#8217;s a bit too short. Mrr.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 22<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">We&#8217;ve resorted to a performance-based dessert system for toilet training. I&#8217;m quite ambivalent about it, but Ruby is responding well so far.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 23<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">No babysitter tonight so we&#8217;re taking Ruby to soccer with us! Hope her frisbee sideline experience will kick in &amp; keep her happy &amp; in place.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 24<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Barack Obama! Barack Obama! I like to say Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 25<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I&#8217;m voting for Obama with my tambourine. When I vote for Obama there&#8217;s a kind of wind. It goes WHOOOOOOOSH.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 28<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I don&#8217;t have Finland on my map.      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/2094451\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/2094451<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 31<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I&#8217;m doing a candy dance. I&#8217;m spinning around. Boom chika boom chika!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 31<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Kate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">After over a week of telling people she was going to be a kitty for Halloween, today Ruby chose the bee costume.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 31<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I *always* dream about camping. But I didn&#8217;t! I dreamed about fish.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Oct 31<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Hallowe&#8217;en with Ruby: visited one house that had pumpkins and lights but no candy. Woman vainly tried to give Ruby a sparkly brooch instead.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Nov 04<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I think I need a banjo. I do. You should give me one.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Nov 05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">I&#8217;m gonna have a big axe when I grow tall.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Nov 08<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Steve<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px\">Ruby is super excited to play with blocks after dinner.  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