So I was trying to think of a line from Psalm 23 that would work, just to tie everything together, and yet when I was reading it this last week the 'my cup runneth over' made me think of having too much to do, which of course is the opposite of what it's supposed to say. So I better save that for another time. Anyway, Ruth is suddenly very laterally mobile, on all surfaces, and spends the day 'singing' or saying sideways L's or short meaningless syllables. She doesn't climb except for steps, and she only tries to go down the steps with help, standing, which makes me think she's safer. Maybe "
he leads me beside quiet waters" would work, since it feels like living each day is like being the quiet water slowly moving on. We get up, we eat, we play, we look at the world, we go to school, we go home...we rest. I'm excited because a new family moved to town that has a 14 or 15 month old boy - yay - maybe a playmate for Ruth? We'll see once they find more permanent housing if that will be a close enough option.
So she looks unhappy here, but she actually loves being outside, just like Karl.
Whenever she wears this bib I think of my school principal from America, who gave it to us. Ruth also used to wear a frog sleeper, and Karl would call her his 'frog princess'.
Ruth loves George, although I think her smaller monkey is her favorite. George doesn't get to sleep in the crib, because I don't want her to get attached to something so difficult to pack.
I guess our porch looks like a lizard's paradise with the warm sun shining on it after a misty dawn. Isn't God amazing?
You see spirituality in a lizard. I love you! Ruth is just the cutest as always. I am sorry George is banned from being a close friend of Ruth's in the evenings-is it because he's a different color?
ReplyDeleteno, I guess I just discriminate based on size - the little monkey is the same color, just fuzzier
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