Overnight with Ruby

 Last weekend Alaina had a sleepover birthday party with her friends. Laura said she though Ruby might be a pest to them (imagine that!), so Ruby spent the night with us.
We told her we could go for supper anywhere she wanted.  She had a hard time deciding between Chik-fil-A and Red Robin.

She ended up choosing Red Robin. We met there after I got home from work, so she rode there with Bob, and home with me.  There was non-stop talking all the way home!

When we got home, we did a crystal making kit.  We set these in the window sill and I sent pictures to Ruby to show her how they were growing.

Here's what they looked like after a week.

Ruby brought along an art book she's been making. She loves to draw and wanted to show us some of her work.

Here's some of the pages in her book.

We watched a movie and then tucked her into bed.  But then she heard I was going to be painting some things for our craft the next day and said "I can help"!  She was so excited to help, that I let her get back up and paint.

Here she is, 10:30 at night painting!  We were painting Jenga blocks.  She painted the orange ones, I did the white ones.  She did a good job and we went to bed around 11. She was pretty excited about staying up that late.

Here they are, drying overnight.

The next morning, Ruby made a card for my Dad who had fallen the week before and was pretty sore.

Then we started working on our craft.  I have a cool melt glue gun so I let Ruby do the gluing. We glued the blocks together, put a cinnamon stick in the middle for a stem and then put a rafia bow on them.

Aren't they cute little pumpkins? Ruby was pretty proud of them.

We stopped to see Great Grandpa on the way home and give him the card she made.  Of course, he loved seeing her and the card.

It was a fun time, and nice to have one on one time with her.