Merry Christmas

After a week at the beach we are home again to spend Christmas with the family. Two big family days this year - one at Grandma Sheila's house and one at Grandma Dianne's and Grandpa Lindsay's house.

The last week has been fantastic. Ruby is such a beach baby. She loves the ocean and jumping the waves and loves making castles and smashing them to bits. We would spend all morning at the beach, then come back to the van for an afternoon nap and then head back to the beach for a play before bed time. Ruby has also had her fishing trip in Daddy's boat, she got the biggest kick out of watching daddy paddling and catching fish.

Today has been huge. After initially being too scared to go and see if Santa had been to visit, Ruby very quickly got over this and was right into ripping the presents open to see what she had got. Yep, she got spoiled. Grandpa Norman soon arrived to help put together Ruby's new trampoline and a few hours later we got to play on it.

Then the rest of the day was spent unwrapping presents at Grandma Sheila's house and having a huge lunch.

Another xmas party in a few days and then we are back down the coast for another week. This time we are sharing with Aunty Taryn and Uncle Simon which will be good for a laugh, especially if Ruby has a few accidents - we are in the process of potty training.

new photos to be uploaded to Ruby's album soon - promise!

Our little talker

It seems that over the last few weeks Ruby has started to say just about everything you ask her to say and she is blowing us away with the things that are coming out of her mouth without any prompts.

There are still the occasions when you just have no idea what she is saying but majority of the time you can have little conversations with her or she can tell you exactly what she wants.

Today it was "play at the park mumma"; "mumma high" (this is on the swing); "ants bite Ruby".

This week Ruby got her first letter from Santa, which was very exciting and for a couple of reasons. A few weeks ago Ruby was drawing and we asked her if she would like to write a letter to santa, of course the answer was yes. So not thinking much about it Ruby drew and mummy wrote a nice letter to santa telling him that Ruby had been a good girl and what Ruby would like for Christmas (a bubba! Maybe next year honey???). We popped it in an envelope, addressed it to Santa at the North Pole, stuck a Winnie the Poo sticker on it and put it in the letter box.

To our amazement Santa wrote back. He even new that we were going to the beach and reminded Ruby to where her suncream and hat....how cool is that. Yay Australia Post!!!

The last few weeks have been ridiculously busy leading up to Christmas with work and all of Ruby's classes. Only one more week and we are off to the beach for a small break, yahoo! We aren't camping this year and are staying in the family caravan. Ruby has got her own little life jacket so she can go fishing with daddy and we are really looking forward to taking her for swims as she is getting more and more confident in the water.

We are also hoping Santa will bring Ruby some clothes as she has grown so much recently that she is nearly out of all of hers. Mummy and daddy are holding off on buying anything until we find out what santa has brought. Maybe some clothes instead of a bubba.

Also, due to mummy's slackness it has been decided that next years photo album will contain monthly photos and videos of Ruby instead of weekly updates.