Kids say the darndest things

Well, the kids that speak, anyway. And, sometimes, the ones that speak do things that are even crazier than what they say. We bought a new phone recently, so Ruby got to have the old one. Just a garden variety, run of the mill cordless phone. In spite of the fact that she has five baby dolls and about twenty other assorted stuffed animals, she decided that the phone was a baby, and that the cradle was it's bed. She started carrying it around lovingly, mimicking the way we carry Lupe. Then, a couple of nights ago, I go to check on her after she has fallen asleep, only to find that she is very gently and lovingly holding the phone in her arms as she sleeps, as though it were the most precious baby in the whole wild world.

I really, really wish now that I had taken a picture.