Ruth at the Ryman

This picture was taken of Ruth at the Ryman Auditorium back in July. If you look at older posts, you will see a video of her dancing with me at the Ryman and now on stage with her daddy "singing" on the stage.

We are exploiting her love of music and movement. Since Ruth does not like to sleep during the day unless she is just tuckered out, we are assisting in that effort. Brian likes to hold her up and have her "swim" as he carries her from room to room, sometimes accompanied to music. I like to dance around with her or take her to the grocery store and put her in her Baby Bjorn (baby carrier). She loves to kick her legs around and loves it when I bend down to pick up chicken out of the cooler. She has many friends at the grocery store who say hi to her each week.

Today I (Natalie) started back to work. I am only working three hours on Monday and then Nutcracker rehearsals on Saturdays and possibly a Friday night class if it makes. Ruth got to see her old friend Ms Leigh Ann and Ms Maggie today and seemed very excited to get to play with them again. Tomorrow we go to the Center for the Visually Impaired for a functional assessment to see how much vision Ruth is using right now. We will let you know how that goes.