Headbutting E.T.

Ruby's learning new stuff all the time - smart little cookie that she is. Steve thinks maybe she's ready for grade 1. And yes, I do know how obnoxious that sounds.

Yesterday she started doing two new things. Two things that I did not teach her.

First, she started touching her index finger to mine. I make a pointy finger, she makes a pointy finger. Then she touches her pointy finger to mine and smiles at me. I thought it was a fluke until she did it a few times. It's super cute.

But uh... not so super cute? Is her other new "thing". Headbutting. She looks at me and smiles and I smile back... and then she smashes her forehead into my face. Yesterday she headbutt (headbutted?) my nose so hard it made my eyes water.

The finger thing she can keep doing but how do you teach a baby NOT to do something? Like headbutting?

E.T. was cute because he was endearing. And he didn't go around headbutting people. I'm sure his fate would have been different if he did.

Lullaby

Ruby was fighting her morning nap today, so after fussing with her for a while I decided to try to sing her a lullaby to settle her down. I held her close in my arms and rocked her a little and started singing. I couldn't quite remember all the words to any particular song so I was making up rhyming words as I went along. I thought it was working because she was quietly and intently staring up at me.

And then she grabbed the pacifier out of her mouth and shoved it into mine - mid lyric.

Apparently she does not care for my singing.

Either that or she thought that I looked like I could use a nap myself.