Truth Is Just Truth.

CICI, while getting tucked in: Dad, how long is the night?

DADAM: Well, that depends how you measure it. Most grownups sleep about eight hours a night. Kids your age sleep a little more - probably about ten hours.

CICI: So we get more sleep than you?

DADAM: That's right.

CICI: Well, Mommy must get the most sleep of all, since she gets up later in the morning than any of us.

Happy Birthday Ramon!

Yesterday was Uncle Ramon's birthday -- a very important person to me and to the girls. We wish we could've celebrated together, but he's still traipsing around Nicaragua and won't return for another week. Oh, well, we'll whoop it up when he gets back.

Happy Birthday Uncle Ramon! We love ya.

Summer Breakfast

Here are the girlies on a lazy Saturday morning, about to dig into some yogurt & granola parfaits. For some unknown reason, I took a picture of this.

Mmmm! (No, Not The Yummy Kind.)

"Ruby."

"Mmm."

"It's time to wake up."

"Mmmm."

"Are you ready to get up?"

"Mmmm."

"Are you ready to have breakfast?"

"Mmmm!"

"Is that a yes?"

"MMMM!"

"Is that a no?"

"MMMMM!"

Random Ruby Quotes From Fourth Of July Weekend.

Mommy, don't be a bad fartface!

Mommy, you're a badass.

[sung:] Don't you want tooooo
Go to bed?
Don't you want tooooo
Waste your time?
[final time:] Don't you want toooo
Be a poopy-butt, hee hee hee hee hee.

Peanuts & Cracker Jack

The four of us went to our first Twins game as a family yesterday and it was quite the outing! We took public transportation on the hottest day of this summer (so far), ate lots of crappy ballpark food, and watched the Twins rally in the 7th inning to beat Cleveland. Cici managed to eat an entire Dome Dog all by herself and Ruby enjoyed the freedom to scream in public and not be reprimanded for it: "Go Twiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiins!" To cap it all off, after the game was over the girls got to go down to the field (along with about a million other kids) and run the bases. It was all very fun until Ruby got scolded by an usher for wandering toward the Cleveland dugout. So, oops.

A memorable adventure to be sure!