Wednesday, December 31, 2008
This is a truly old short movie from Thanksgiving.
Good excuse to give a brief report on our holidays, which we spend with David's family. Ruby totally knows all their names now and that helps us get her excited days before we leave (mostly because we count on that excitement to make the four-hour drive worth the while).
She has though, in the last few days, showed confusion about her relationship with them all. She's clearly trying to sort that out. They are all her friends (which they are), but Aunty Lissa is David's Aunty Lissa too. However, during our last visit she decided to start calling her grandma "Grandma Pat." So that is our solution too. We now talk about Aunties Lissa and Ro, Cousins Blake and Ellaina and then, in relationship to us: Sister Lissa and so forth. I guess it just brings our name-calling practice here at home (Papa David and Mama Marsha) in line with the rest of the family. Makes sense.
When actually visiting, she just loves every single moment. From blowing up the air mattress to walking the dog Guy (she says she walks him, but he's a big boisterous Lab and really walks her), to eating a ton, to feeding the fish in Aunty Lissa's house, to going to a local MacD's that has a HUGE indoor playspace, to going shopping at Klem's, to having playdates with Second-Cousin Makenna and more. She truly adores every moment and I wish we could go more often.
So that roughly describes thanksgiving and christmas. This year for new years eve we had dinner with our friends Demi and Sade. Ruby and Sade kept each other amused for hours, so that Ruby didn't get to bed until 10pm or so. We would totally have made midnight at Demi's house if it wasn't that when Ruby woke up at 11:30pm she was confused about where she was/awake enough that we jumped in the car, got her home and asleep with a few minutes to spare before the ball dropped. This was much more adventurous than 2007 when we were asleep by 10pm.
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Difficult concept for kids : all these mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, grandparents and so on. Don't bargain on her figuring it out until she's 5 years old or even older. You'll find that she'll ask (for instance) if somebody's husband is the father of the wife. This since the concept Father and Mother are the most comprehensible ones. But trying to explain that Grandma or Mamie are the mothers of you and David will surely fall on deaf ears. By the time you were three years old we started calling some people around us "good friends" ... so when Opa and Oma came they were accepted as good friends ... and their names were Opa and Oma, like Sue and Roy. It is only later that you can start working on the family tree. Remember the huge one I made for you and Jaya, just before we left for Holland ? That was fun and you still both had difficulty with all these aunts, cousins, etc.... even at that age.
So good luck and don't get your hopes up !
Big hug for you all, M.
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