4 months

Well 4 months surrounded by the wonderful world that is Ruby has gone by. 

When she was first born and everyone says to you that the first 6 weeks is the hardest and those 6 weeks feel like years. Now 4 months have come and gone and time is flying by. Christmas is fast approaching and I dont know where 2013 has run off too. 

We have been in Mackay for 2 years in January and there is no finish line in sight yet but it is certain that if we were still living on the Gold Coast, Ruby would not be here. We financially just could not do it. So it's a double edge sword really. To make a family of our own we had to leave the family we love. 

Here are the latest photos of our happy, smiley girl that has just learnt to blow raspberries!

Milestones

Ruby has teeth! I repeat Ruby has teeth!! 

She sprouted two bottom teeth while we were away. Unknown to myself until pointed out by Aunty Ricci that yes indeed she has cut two teeth. Again, the mother of the year award goes to....... How did I not know that my child had two very white, very sharp little chompers in her mouth?

 Lucky I wasn't breastfeeding. That would have been a very unpleasant little surprise! 

Mum informs me that my sister Claire cut her first tooth before 3 months so looks like it runs in the family! I hope for Ruby's sake that she has received a few genetic gifts from her father's side of the family including nice straight teeth and the metabolism every girl dreams of. We found a photo of Mum and I at 3 months and the similarities are ridiculous. You might be stuck with the Anderson genes Ruby and god help you if you are!

Me on the left at 3 months and Ruby on the right at 3 1/2 months

First Plane Ride

Well time has flown by and our impending trip to visit all the relatives on the Gold Coast had finally arrived! Ruby was such a good baby on the plane ride down. Took a bottle on take off and slept sucking her dummy on decent. She did so well on this trip. She was passed around from person to person and dragged here there and everywhere. Very overwhelming for her and after a week she had had enough and boy did she let me know about it. Conveniently at a girls dinner thrown in our honour! 

Ever since then Miss Ruby has gone from one wake up at night to three. Apparently it is known as "the 4 month regression". This time is a huge learning curve for babies as they learn to roll and chat away and grab things etc. Because they are learning so many new abilities, their little brains are on overload and they find it hard to settle to go to sleep. 

But as always with our little Gemini, its gone from one extreme to another. She now goes down during the day pretty much without a hitch all thanks to the white noise app on our Ipad that plays the sound of a vacuum cleaner. I find it just blocks out the daily noise around her and she just settles so well to it. She now sleeps in her cot up to 3 times a day for anywhere between 45 mins to 2 and a half hours at a time.

Ruby also met her cousin Raphael who is 6 weeks younger then her and a hell of alot hairier! Here are some pics of the trip.

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