-We got to go to the beach over fall break with my folks, and I was surprised at how much she loved it! Ruby's siblings did NOT like the sand and brightness at this age, but she LOVED it!! We could not believe how busy she stayed out there. She crawled around and explored the entire time-never fussed about sand all over her (like literally stuck to her face and all in her mouth). She crawled so much that her knees were red and she even had blisters/sores on top of her big toes!! One of her games was to crawl as fast as she could to the water, then we would have to grab her out of the waves before the totally overtook her. We would take her WAY up to the sand, and she would start the process all over again! She wore us out, and she just laughed and laughed!
-We also got to do lots of fall pumpkin patch, trunk or treat, Halloween type stuff this month, and it has been a blast! Like I said, it's all new to her so it is fun to watch her experience it. Let's just say she knows what candy is now and begs for it when she sees her siblings with some. Sheesh!
-She's gotten lots of teeth this month, poor baby! She's gone through phases of her shirt being soaked and drool just dripping from her mouth! When I lay her down to change her diaper, I can see the big swollen purple spots on her gums, and I can't imagine how that must hurt! It has effected her eating some.
-She is getting more and more mobile, but isn't walking. She stood up at the coffee table at the beach, at her music table, and at the playground slide which are not normal things for her to do. She's getting braver! Still funny to me how slow the girls have been at becoming mobile, but I'm trying to just enjoy it! She gets around just fine, though, and one day I looked up and she was sitting up on the hearth holding a little pumpkin in her hand like she was posing. And another time I was doing dishes and looked over to see her sitting on the lid checking it all out! They said they had her walking behind a shopping cart at school, too, and I saw her take like 2 steps doing this.
-She says a lot-said "here ya go" to Steven when handing him a hair tie. Says "go go!" when we get into or out of the car. Says eyes (sounds like ice) and nose and points to both-on both her and us. Also blinks her eyes to show us her eyes which is just adorable. She has learned how to yell "get out" from her crib. She learned this from Annie who yells "I wanna get up/out" when she's done with her nap. It is funny and cracks us up. She also says "bye bye!!" as soon as I walk in to nursery to pick her up at the end of the day. She says it over and over really loudly...just letting everyone know she's done there. :)
-She is so affectionate and when I carry her facing out in the ergo, she twists her neck around to look up at me and give me a kiss. She does it over and over. She still scrunches up her nose and says "muah!" when she kisses, too. Sweetie!
We love you sweet Ruby Jane! You are one awesome baby.
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| Another trick-We ask her, "How old is Ruby?" and she holds up one finger and we say, "One!" She's pretty proud of it! |
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| We see her scrunchy nose face a lot! |
