Sprout...

Finally Daddy has planted Ruby's tree. This is an Australian native that should flower Red around Ruby's b'day. It was planted as a seed when Ruby was first born and has only just now gone in the garden at home. Crazy that Ruby and her tree are the same size...

The family have had another weekend away at the beach this week. Ruby had a couple of trips to the beach, lots of building of sandcastles (well, mummy built and Ruby destroyed), a paddle in the ocean (no tears this time) and we all went to Rosie's 1st B'day party at Cabarita (just down the road from Kingscliff).

Ruby was dunked for the first time at swimming lessons - no dramas at all. But we did get tears towards the end of the class. Ruby was not very impressed with lying on the rubber mat (she was on the very end next to two other crying babies) nor was she impressed with crawling through a tunnel on top of the water. Daddy was very upset that mummy didn't get any photos of Ruby crying in the middle of the tunnel. Overall though, she seemed to enjoy herself.

Ruby's two bottom molars look like they have finally arrived. Mummy can now see them in her gums and the other telling sign is that Ruby has gone back to sleeping better at night. But it is very hard to check on their progress as the only time Ruby will open her mouth wide enough is when she is crying - we'll have to remember to check when she is in the tunnel at swimming.

Ruby has also just started letting go of furniture and is standing up by herself. She doesn't stand for very long and we aren't sure if she realises what she has done but all this standing and stepping around furniture is very scary.

Oh yeah, mummy has her little side kick back. Ruby has all of a sudden gone from happily playing by herself to following you around the house and getting distressed if you are going to quickly for her to keep up or if you have gone out of sight and she isn't sure where you are. Ruby is getting much to big for mummy to be lugging around everywhere now, so hopefully she will get over this again soon.