The year that was Ruby

Well, apologies to all.

 It has been about 6 months since my last post! 

So slack but its been go go go in our household lately. Ruby has just had her first birthday. She now attends daycare once a week as I have returned to work on a casual basis and she is loving it. She also has a ridiculous amount of teeth for her age. She has just cut her 4 molars so that is 12 teeth down 8 to go and we are done! She is still such a brilliant baby who is no trouble at all. Here are some photos from the last 6 months.

Ruby's First Christmas

Well the holiday season is officially over and Ruby had such a wonderful first Christmas. 

She was very spoilt and got to spend lots of time with all her family. 

And like she always does while we are away. She decided to sprout some more teeth!

Its the most wonderful time of the year!!

I'm sorry to all the Grinches out there but.....I love Christmas!

 It's my favourite time of year and I know as you get older the excitement of it dies down but the fact that I get to relive it all with Ruby makes me so happy. I know she is too young now to understand it but when she is at the stage where we can put out milk and carrots for Santa and his Reindeer and she is too excited to sleep on Christmas Eve, I'll be a happy woman. 

Seeing as it is Missy Moo's first Christmas, we had to go see Santa! She didn't have a clue what was going on and was only interested in his beard but hey! No Tears! haha! Santa doesn't look too impressed in the photo though.

We are having a Mackay Christmas this year and then we are lucky enough to be flying down to the Coast for a week over New Years so we are getting the best of both worlds.  

Bring on the festive season!

6 months

Our beautiful Ruby is days away from the 6 month mark and I have to say this is my favourite age. 

Don't get me wrong I have enjoyed every minute so far in the world of Ruby but right now she acknowledges your presence, she eats and talks and rolls over and plays but you can still pop her down somewhere and know she will be there in a few minutes when you return.

 I can still go to the movies without any dramas. Im savouring all these little things because I know in a month or two's time she will be wanting to crawl and getting cranky that she can't! 

She is just starting to sit up all on her own and when she is propped up she really enjoys it. Our bright eyed girl is so clever and only has to be shown once or twice how to do something and she is onto it. We have also started the process of unswaddling her. It's just so hot here now and I dread how hot it is going to be in summer. Her room is 30 degrees at 10 in the morning so I started off cold turkey with both arms out in a light sleeping bag and instead of the usual 5 mins it takes for her to fall asleep, we were going on 45 mins. She did eventually fall asleep but only for an hour max. 

So I did buy a swaddle suit a while ago that you could zip the arms off to transition them. I put her back in that and unzipped one arm. Hallelujah! We are back to 5 mins to fall asleep and she even slept straight through the night with it out. Another week or so and I will unzip the other arm and we should hopefully be in the clear. My little girl is growing up. Tear ;'(

Our Seasoned Traveller.

It has taken me 27 years before I got to visit Melbourne.

 It took Ruby all of 5 months. 

For our wedding anniversary we decided to take a trip to Melbourne. It was freezing!!!! Poor Ruby went from playing all day in just a nappy to 3 layers with shoes and a beanie! 

She did so well on the plane ride to and from and really was such a good girl the whole time we were away. If she got tired. She would just fall asleep in the pram. Done. We made sure we got back to the hotel in the afternoon to give her a good 2 hour or so nap before we would go out to dinner so it wasn't too much on her. A girl needs her beauty sleep. 

We visited the Aquarium and I guess all the excitement got to her and within half an hour of being there she fell asleep in the pram. Most of our photos are her crying or asleep in front of the exhibits. 

We are saving these for your 21st my dear. 

Ruby Rolling

5 months down....

Well Miss Ruby is has just turned 5 months and is truly a wonderful baby. 

No more night feeds. She is sleeping from 6pm-6am with maybe one call out for her dummy to be put back in and if thats all it is, I am not complaining!! She is having 3 meals a day plus 4 bottles and is growing so big. She is now in 00 clothes. Weighs 7.2 kilos. I cant believe it. 

She can roll over from her back to her tummy pretty easily. Sometimes can roll back but other times lies there and calls out until you roll her. She is so vocal. Lots of raspberries and cooing and aahhhhhing. She cries vary rarely and something has to be very wrong. She knows what she wants and if she sees you with that bottle in your hand you better give it to her! STAT! 

She has been quite the socialite. Between swimming classes and floating in her tube to movies to her first Melbourne Cup! We play with Ella all the time and now they are older they are a lot more aware of each other's presence. 

They lean in for each other and hold hands(not intentionally but its still very cute).

We are off to Melbourne tomorrow for the weekend for our Wedding Anniversary and hopefully she will be a little angel on the plane. fingers crossed!!!