Some of you might remember my little vignette called The History Teacher, well here he is, chosen to talk a little about Ruby on her last day. (Big sister did the filming).

You can only buy ONE photo package, never a variety. If they let me close enough I cna do my own.


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Something about the beach makes people (and dogs) want to dig a hole.





Yea, Ruby is RIPPED because of all that gymnastics.

Lily is pure mutt! Still can't figure out all her mixes.

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Bean art

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So many butts, so little time. Lily runs with a new friend.



Best thing: Ruby & Lily's relationship. She is a girl and her dog.

We got a puppy! A 10 week old Border Collie mix we named Lily:




I'm sure they will all be friends. You can't accuse me of being a speciest.

More "pictures of Lily" later.

Today I helped chauffeur Ruby's class to the Alameda Food Bank warehouse. Here they learned how the food bank collects and distributes food to the working poor, homeless, and seniors. Afterwards the 15 kids (and 3 parents and 1 teacher) loaded 3000 lbs of cabbage into boxes. Hard but fun work.

I was in charge of 3 girls: Ruby, her friend Rachael, and a new girl to the school "M". M says she used to be rich but her dad married another woman and they had twins together so she isn't rich anymore.

Instead of heading straight back to school like the other cars, I took the girls to Jamba Juice. I told them not to tell the other kids about the Jamba Juice because they would feel jealous but it was OK their parents because you can't be told by an adult to keep secrets from them. The girls pinky-sweared with each other... they seemed excited to have this important classified information to themselves. On the way back to school, while gulping our juices, I played the radio loud and we sang. I jiggled the car back in forth and said it was dancing.

We got back about 20 minutes after everyone else and the cute teacher eyed us suspiciously. I think he knew treats were involved given I'm always the rogue parent, but probably forgived me since I did not get lost and an hour late like I was once on a field trip a couple of years ago. Parent drivers must be hard to come by.

I said good-bye to the girls and M shouted back at me "This has been the best day of my life!"

Ruby's favorite part was getting to hold the ferret.

Not sure what silver cowboys have to do with ferrets.

At school they dress up as a famous person rather than just a costume. Ruby goes at Amelia Earhart in my old motorcycle jacket. Just wait until those über moms hear that! tee hee

Princess Leia Devils have to make important phone calls. (yea, I did the two buns -- it wasn't easy)



Princess Leia Devil is good friends with Olga Korbut

Daule and Babahoyo rivers merge downstream to form the larger Guayas River. (Stella took this picture with my camera).

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How did she go from this:


to this so quickly!


(I'm planning her 9th birthday at the end of the month. Jesoos Crackers)

Ruby jumps from one hemisphere to the other at the imaginary Equinoctial line or parallel zero ( 0 0´0¨) in Quito, Ecuador.

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I can't wait to show this to her future boyfriends.

**sniff**

Today was the school's Holiday Sing. They sang a few songs "rap style". Can you find Ruby? She went all out by even dressing rap, sort of.





These girls wrote their own version of "12 Days of Christmas". During the part where they sang "FIVE DIRTY STARES (aka five golden rings)" Ruby would give the audience a dirty look. She is such a ham on stage.

DOLL CARNAGE!

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