The Rankin Zoo

Last night I was tucking Coral into bed. I was asking her which songs she wanted me to sing and I noticed that the whole time she was rubbing her eye.
So, I asked, “Coral, are you tired? You’re tired, aren’t you?”
She replied, “No… I’m rubbing my eye.”

The other day I took Coral to the toy store to kill some time. She’s actually really good at the toy store because she tends to want to put things back – so you don’t have to argue with her to not buy a million things. In fact, the other day B tried [...]

Here are a couple of Coral ABC videos. When she says the ABCs she usually skips a bunch at the start. When she sings them she tends to get in an infinite loop – when she gets to the part “Now I know my A B Cs…” she tends to start over. [...]

Yesterday morning Coral and I got up fairly early and headed out to Sam’s Club to do some shopping. We chatted in the car and almost immediately I noticed something interesting about the way Coral was talking.
Instead of her usual, “yeah” or “yea” or “yup” or even “uh hu” she was very clearly saying [...]

Here’s a quick ABC video that I got as I was running out the door this morning. I’ll try to get a better performance soon (maybe one where she’s wearing clothes?).