Ruby Alice in Wonderland

Recently Ruby attended her first dress up party for mummy's friend Kay. Kay held an Alice in Wonderland Tea Party and Ruby went as Alice, mummy went as the Cheshire Cat (kind of).

Ruby Alice caught her white rabbit

The latest things that Ruby is loving spending her time doing is puzzles, having tea parties with her animals, reading (all the time) and teaching her bubba to swim in the bath. You can hear her telling bubba to "ready go", "monkey monkey on the wall" and "kick bubba".

Ruby is now super clever with her letters and will randomly announce from the back of the car a letter she has seen on a sign. With daddy she spelt out Woolworths and this morning with mummy, she spelt out the full sign at the YMCA - where is goes for swimming lessons - something along the lines of YMCA Fitness and Sports Centre.

Ruby will still miss some letters and confuse some numbers but to say she only turned two a month ago, we think she is mighty clever.

Letters

Ruby now knows her letters. Every single one of them. She recognises them in any order and knows which ones spell RUBY (not that she has a hard name to spell). She will randomly start to sing the ABC but will start at the letter she has just seen on the front of a book or on a sign.

Ruby has this week also started to sing songs. On a trip in the car Ruby made mummy sing the same song over and over again by the time we made it to Mount Cotton daddy was ready to throw the two of us out of the car. But when we got home and Ruby was sat at the table waiting for dinner, she proceeded to sing the same song she had just made mummy sing in the car - word for word.

Counting

Just a quick note - Ruby counted to 10 all the way through for the first time today.

TWO!!

Another year already!! It's crazy how much Ruby has grown, changed, learnt and developed in the last 12 months.


She is now potty trained, talking, counting to 5 and she knows her left from her right - most of this she started doing in just the last few weeks. She has gone from her cot to the big bed, stopped breastfeeding and paddles with arms and kicks in the pool(assisted) like a pro. Her hair has gone curly, she is slimming down (a little) and she continues to get taller.


If she keeps this up, we'll be sending her to school next year.


Ruby's birthday seemed to go on and on. The day started with the viewing of her present from mum and dad - her new room! (video in her album). Then a trip to the nurse to get all her measurements done.
Height - 92cm
Weight - 13.6kg


We then headed to the park for a play date with Grandma Dianne, Isabelle, Maddie, Aunty Emma and Uncle Jamie.


After an exhausting morning you would think that Ruby would be quite happy to have an afternoon nap in her new room while mummy got organised with work and the plans for the rest of the week. But no, by 5pm and still no sleep Ruby was absolutely feral and the planned trip to the beach that afternoon was getting later and later. Eventually after a visit to Grandma Sheila and Great Grandma Alice, we hit the road for the caravan at 6:30pm. Ruby finally crashed half way to the beach.



The next day was magic. Family day at Kingscliff should be on the agenda more often!


Then Saturday was party day. Just family this year. Mummy made a beach themed cake and girls had a great time beating each other up on the trampoline.


Massive apologies for the delay in posting, things are looking promising time wise, with hopefully some big news for mummy in a few weeks, so more and more posts very soon.


There are an enormous amount of photos from Ruby's birthday week - all photos and videos have been uploaded to her album.

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!