Off to LA

We're flying down to LA later this afternoon for Thanksgiving, so I thought I'd put up a quick post (with one kid sleeping on my chest and the other watching Sesame Street) because I probably won't while we're down there.

Everybody in the family but me has been sick at some point in the last couple of weeks, which has been fun. Ruby started preschool a couple of weeks ago.

Alright, now you're caught up. I said it was going to be a quick post. OK, one more item.

As many of you know, there is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon of the sporting world, referring to the baseball player Manny Ramirez, which is "Manny being Manny". For those of us who live in her world, there is the corollary "Ruby being Ruby" under which we can file this latest bit of Rubyrific-ness.

Last night, our friends Greg and Amanda came by, essentially to say goodbye before moving to Paris in a couple of weeks. After some negotiation, Amanda was allowed to read Ruby her three books that she gets as a part of bedtime routine. After two books, Amanda attempted to tease her by pretending to be done.

Ruby, of course, was not amused. She turned to Amanda and said in utter seriousness, and presumably with more than a touch of condescension, "do I have to count the books?"

We can only assume that she was just making sure that the legend of her precociousness travels as potently as possible to Paris.

Job well done, little girl.