I love you baby

After many requests we have finally taken a photo of mum's belly.

6 months in and bub is growing lots and lots, with poor mum is now finding it hard to wear clothes that fit when she was 9mths pregnant with Ruby.

Come November Ruby's not going to be able to get anywhere near mum for a cuddle.

Imagination, Fishing, Dobbing, Swearing and more

Our little chatter box has developed quite an imagination over the last month or so - mumma I'm scared, there's a camel in my cupboard - for example.

Ruby has fantastic stories and will talk non-stop if you let her. If Ruby has been out for the day with dad she will come home and tell mum exactly what she has done with dad that day, right down to the point where dad was looking for a new mumma!

Oh and her memory is amazing, Ruby will recite her stories, tell mum and dad off if we read ONE word wrong and repeat things that she hears you say. Yep, even naughty words that she shouldn't be saying - f*&king Wiggles (thanks dadda); for f*&king sake (thanks dadda); lets go home there's mould in the f*&king caravan (thanks dadda).

In the last month dadda has started a new job, just down the road from home. To celebrate before he started we had a weekend away at Kingscliff - due to the mould we lived it up and stayed in the local Breakfree Apartments. Even in winter Ruby loves the beach, spending one of the mornings playing in the surf and sand and the other on her first fishing trip with mum and dad. Ruby caught her first fish, which gets bigger and bigger and bigger every time you ask her how big it was.....she is going to make a great fisherman!

Baby Abbott is growing lots and lots with both Ruby and dad making comments about mum's large belly and posterior. Ruby loves coming to the doctors for our check ups and even gets up on the table to have her baby checked. She also did this when we went for our 3D ultrasound, when mum went to the loo, Ruby jumped up on the table and asked to get her baby looked at. Just Weetbix in Ruby's belly. At 'school' recently Ruby's teacher Miss Lizzy was playing rhythms on a drum and was asking the kids to copy her. When she told the kids that the next one would be like a heart beat, Ruby said 'My mummy has a heart beat in her belly, it's the babys'.

Ruby is now going twice a week to swimming lessons - super fish Abbott we'll call her and once a week to Baby Gymnastics where she is learning to balance, jump, do handstands and somersaults.

Ruby, Dad and her first fish!