Super Ruby

Last week while visiting Grandma Dianne, Ruby was taken by a photo hanging up that had Ruby, mumma, grandma and great granny in it. She sat there for ages just looking at it. When we asked her where mumma was she would point and say 'there' and she did the same for grandma and granny. When we asked her where Ruby was she would look up smile and point to herself, who's that in the photo then, 'baby'.

Since then mummy and daddy would ask where is Ruby just to see her point to herself, then out of the blue we were playing this game and little voice came back 'Ruby' and of course she was pointing at herself. She is also saying 'Ruby' for things that belong to her. When we are heading off for our afternoon bike ride Ruby knows that we have to put our helmet on first so she runs to the garage pointing at her helmet 'Ruby' Ruby' 'Ruby'.

The other thing Ruby has started doing, is putting things away. Ok, this seems trivial but she would not do this before, she would spread her toys and books all over the house and just walk away and leave them. Now she is putting her clothes in the dirty clothes, putting toys away and picking up after herself - when asked!

We've also started back at swimming and music class this week. With Ruby loving both. Swimming with daddy on a Thursday and music with mummy on a Tuesday, we might even get daddy to music next week, although he wasn't very impressed on the other mums (no yummy ones apparently) at the new class time so we will see.

Ruby has also met her Aunty Freda this week and lots of other relatives from Daddy's side at a party over the weekend. Ruby was a little taken aback by the amount of people wanting to talk, cuddle and hold her but in the end the resident pig and Freda's new monkey book were the winners.

Babble and words

It seems that in just the last week Ruby has started to copy or trying to copy words that you are saying. Her babble is becoming easier to understand and she is trying really hard to say words. Mummy was telling Ruby how the bread was cooking in the toaster and that when it was finished it would go POP. Ruby looked mummy for a second and then said POP. And on a visit to see Great Grandma and Great Grandpa, Granny was telling Ruby how her jumper was Blue and Ruby's pants were Blue and so were mummy's jeans - Ruby looked at Granny and said 'Blue'. Yesterday she wanted to wear her 'Purple' socks.

Her favourite word to say however is Gar Gar. Her shoes are gar gar, her socks are gar gar, her dummy is gar gar and so is play dough. This is a little bemusing as everyone tells her the correct words but she insists that these things are known as Gar gar???? Maybe now that she is starting to develop her vocabulary these things will go back to their known forms.

Ruby has been and had her 18mth injections this week, again no drama at all. There were a few tears when the needle was going in but once the band aide was on, Ruby sighed jumped down from Mummy's lap and waved goodbye to the nurse. She did however, remember the nurses room and started to panic and cry when mummy and daddy walked her in. She has only been in this room a few times and the last time was 6 months ago. I hope she doesn't remember the incident with Santa - we could be in for another photo disaster at Xmas.

Ruby has also this week started climbing and sliding all by herself at the park. She can now go up the chain to the highest slide, up the steep stairs and tries really hard to climb the rope maze. Mummy is a little devastated that she doesn't have to follow Ruby up and now misses out on going down the slides herself.

having a ball in the bath

Happy Birthday Great Grandma Alice

Ruby's Great Grandma Alice turned 99 on the 27th of June and we had a huge party to celebrate. Well it was huge for Great Grandma. Lunch with the immediate family was very exhausting. Grandma Sheila cooked up a storm as usual and had enough food for the whole of Mt Cotton. Next year is certain to be a big one though!

This last week has been crazy busy for the family, with an overnight stay at the caravan, a BBQ lunch to meet more relatives and grandma's big day got jammed in there as well.

Daddy also took Ruby to music class this week and didn't he have a ball playing with the drums, scarves and dancing with Ruby ;)

Mummy has put a big girls bed in Ruby's room this week (a mattress on the floor), Ruby hasn't slept in it yet, but she is very pleased to see dolly sleeping there when she wakes up in the morning. We are going to go slowly with the transfer to the bed as she has only just started to sleep properly in the cot - lets not ruin it!

And on the animal front, Ruby now buzzes like a bee, does the arm actions for a monkey and does a very good impersonation of Rusty when she pulls his tail.

Scar face

We've had a few accidents lately. Ruby tripped over and landed face first on a boulder in the garden before music class. There were no tears, just the usual sulky noises. But when Ruby turned around she had a nice 50cent piece sized gravel rash on her chin that was bleeding and bleeding and bleeding. Apart from the scar taking way to long to heal - after a week it now looks like a faded food stain - Ruby is fine.

We did however have a rather scary accident involving the steam vapouriser and Ruby's hand. The silly chook got her hand on it when it was on - she was to quick for mum - and burnt herself. There were many tears and lots of trips to the freezer to play with the ice. This has healed and you can't even tell that she was burnt but if you ask Ruby to show you her sore finger she sure remembers! There is one good thing that has come out of the incident and that is if you don't want Ruby to touch something or go somewhere you can tell her it's hot and she will stop dead in her tracks.

Out of pure curiosity and the fact that all of Ruby's long pants seem to now look like they should be 3 quarter pants, mummy decided to measure Ruby this week. Over the past 5 months Ruby has grown 7 centimeters. Is that some sort of baby record? Will she ever stop?

Ruby has also gotten a lot better at swimming with daddy. She will now go on the blue mat without a drama, kicks and paddles underwater and jumps in from the side of the pool. Even though Ruby has been using the toilet really well, for some reason she decided this week that the pool would be the place to go. Crazy, after telling mum all week that she needs to use the potty and then uses it, she makes a liar out of us and just stops half way through class and does it in her togs. Glad mummy was at work and daddy had to deal with it :)

This week Ruby has started clucking like a hen, she tries her hardest to bounce like a kangaroo (very funny to watch - we will get this on video), drives her car everywhere and is teething again.

We thought the 2 year old molars were coming earlier in the year. Well, they went away and now they are back. Hopefully, this time they will pop through. Ruby's not happy, her fingers are constantly in her mouth and she is waking during the night again. Although, no where near as bad as she was the last time she was teething.

Check out the nice little carry spot for her apple. Talk about comfort food, Ruby is happy as long as she is carrying around a food item.

slack mummy

Ok, so it's been a while....sorry. Daddy has been reminding mummy to update Ruby's blog continuously but do you think he has any inclination to write....no!

The big news for the last couple of weeks is that Ruby has taken to using the potty. We have had two poos in the potty in a couple of days and she is now recognising and letting you know that she is about to and has done a wee or a poo in her nappy.

Ruby has started jumping, throwing and riding backwards on her little car. She is also spending a lot of time moving our furniture around the house.

Ruby is also becoming very knowing. You can now ask her a question and she will answer yes (nods) and no (says nope and shakes head). Would you like some fruit, dinner, water or bath - nods; are you ready for bed - nope!

The latest animal sounds and actions Ruby worked out over the last couple of weeks include growling like a bear, (clap hands together) snap snap like a crocodile and pinching fingers together like a crab.

Mummy and Ruby have also been working a lot on colours. 9 out of 10 times Ruby will know yellow and green and she is just starting to grasp red and blue.

our spunky monkey wearing size 2!!