Ok, so she's not very impressed with Santa but she is an absolute beach baby and just loves playing in the water and eating the sand. It's been an eventful week and a bit, but this time it's all good. Ruby's ears are all better and she is back to her happy self, except when Santa's around.
The family has had a mini holiday at Kingscliff to celebrate Mummy and Daddy's 6th wedding anniversary. We had two days at a hotel (which felt really weird) and two days at the caravan. Ruby was a treat the whole time, we would spend all morning at the beach, she would sleep for hours and then we would play or shop in the afternoon.
On top of this we helped cousin Isabelle celebrate her 1st B'day (photos in Ruby's album), we've been to see Santa in the city, had Grandma and Grandpa move in and had a play date with Sophie in the park.
Seeing Santa for the first time was an experience. Mummy had the bright idea to go and see Santa in the city - along with everybody else. We caught the train in, Ruby loved this, and then waited and waited and waited in line to see Santa. Daddy waited in the line while Ruby and mummy walked the toy department of the Myer centre. Ruby loves trucks! When it was finally our turn, Santa was waiting in this little room no bigger than a bathroom with two people to take photos. Mummy could tell from the way Ruby had stiffened in her arms that she wasn't going to be very impressed sitting on the old bugger's knee. Smart girl, who'd want to sit on some old mans knee that's hiding in a little room. We ended up getting a half decent photo with Mummy holding Ruby. Oh well, maybe next year.
Ruby is well impressed with Christmas lights. She loves the lights on our Christmas tree and a few houses in a our street have really gone to town. Ruby has been out every night before bed time to see them. We've all had a turn walking the street with her jibbering away in her on little language about what she can see.
Apart from going to the beach Ruby's latest favourite thing to do is read. She will sit and flip pages in books for ages, mumbling away to herself like she is actually reading the book. She will bring you a book to read her and then another and another and then bring back the same books again and again. Sometimes we actually finish one before she runs off to get the next one. Daddy loves reading to Ruby and on one of our shopping trips over the weekend Daddy brought Ruby a new book - The Snot Goblin. Ruby loves it, Daddy thinks it's hilarious and Mummy just thinks it's foul (Grandpa wont let Daddy read it after dinner).
Ruby has also started to point at things, she will be walking along holding your hand and will be pointing in the direction she wants to go. She has also got quite a little vocabulary now, she knows "Ta" and when to say it, she will say "Bang" if there is a loud noise, the latest one is "Bird" and there is a lot of Mumma, Dadda and Bubba. She sings a lovely song about Mumma, "mum, mum, mum, mum" all nice and melodic, Dadda however gets shouted about, she will be sitting an inch from him and will scream "DAD" over and over again. Crazy how she worked out early on that Dad has selective hearing and is very good at tuning out.
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