Rock climbing!?!

First question when could we afford to go rock climbing? Second question why did no one tell me!? So for Tilly’s birthday we decided to spend over a $100, and for her party we did that too. I had lots of fun and got some pics, the only toughspot we had was: Tilly getting stuck up the automatic belay (we had to get a staff member to help her down), but anyway back to those pics:

Tilly having fun (on the activity’s without belays)

 Me and Ava racing each other:
Me and Ava (on a harder course)

I beat Ava (victory dance!)

Mummy I’m seven!

Wow Tilly’s seven! She made it! Yay! Today was awesome I left Carindale Shopping Centre feeling so good, Tilly had the best time! We might have gone over $100 but that doesn’t matter we had fun! I even got two of my own presents! One of them was an L.O.L Surprise doll (the head fell off) and the second was a hatch-your-own-mermaid egg (not broken, yet!) here are some photos of the day,

At home getting ready:

Photo together:

At the beach next to the cafe:
Tilly’s breakfast!?!
Hugs at the beach:
Photo of me:

Tilly’s new nails (rock!):
And new hair style!
A little (secret) snip here and there:
Hundred dollar outfit (literally):

Now I see the light....

Guess what, I, me, Ruby, just learnt that.... drum roll please...........Dad has been cheating on Mum, and then he left to live with Sam (new girlfriend), and after four weeks he’s already; dumped Sam, got a new girlfriend and started helping her and her kids! Oh and did I mention we’re moving? And Dad is way to “busy” living at his Mum’s house to help us clean up the house for sale, even if we’ve already done 90% of the work and all he’s got to do is clean the side garden! And because Mum doesn’t trust dad to keep us safe, she made this little phone that she can track us on! But hopefully this will all work out fine, but for now fingers crossed 🤞🏼 and 🤬 Dad! For now here are some pics of what the house looks like now we cleaned it up: 

The new couch 

Tilly’s new bedroom:
And finally, the (not so) new dining table:

New year's eve

first things first,the fireworks were AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!, but other than that I got to hang with my bestie, Ava, we had heaps of fun and I convinced Ava's mum to let her get a henna (we were at eat street markets) Ava gave me some food advice (chicken & rice) and it was delicious! After that we played tag and made some new friends (Julia) then we played camouflage and then the fireworks began there were reds,blues, greens & pinks  

Afternoon fishing trip

Home early from school for an afternoon fishing trip with dad.

Story time

Reading stories from the library in our new play area

Ouchy

After a week of being off colour and just not 100%, last night ruby was up until 11pm crying with an ear ache :(

After a fair amount of medication she finally went to sleep and has today been to the drs.

Happy mummies day!

What a fantastic start to the day, a sleep in until 7am and ruby running in to wish mum a happy birthday.

She had made a special gift at kindy, a love heart collage card, a drawing with lots of purple, mums favourite colour, and the best bit, 3 Jatz wrapped up with a bow.

We shared the biscuits in bed and ruby said that it was great way to start the day having a picnic in bed.

Lizard/wizard

Mum Merlin is a lizard just like T Rex.

No honey Merlin is a Wizard with a 'w'.

I said Arthur is a lion and the lizard is a bear and T Rex is the king of the castle.
See mum it all matches.

Ok sweetheart

Location:State Route 45,Sheldon,Australia

Catch up

After a few months of pull our hair out attitude, our beautiful girl is back 90% of the time and all it took was a trip to the chiro for a cranial adjustment - who'd of thought.

Ruby now has a better social life than the rest of the family and some days asks if we can just stay at home.

She goes to 'school' twice a week, swimming lessons, dancing class and now yoga.

She is still dinosaur mad, loves building castles at the beach and playing with Tilly in her cot.




Glee! Receiving her Dino themed Easter pressie from Phoebe and Jake

Check out the new fringe, care of the blu tac that was stuck in her hair.



Fun at the beach over Easter




First trip to the movies - loved it so much she wanted to stay for the next one




First time at dance class - each week is a different theme and she dresses up each week to suit the theme




This was pirate day




And seasons day



Visiting granny in the hospital




Going for a walk in mums new stroller - dad calls it 'the enterprise'




Passing out from exhaustion at 9pm - this was when Tilly first came home and dad was still working nights, mum was struggling to get them both to sleep at night

Location:Various

Big girl riding her bike

Ruby is now a master of her push bike and rode all over Kingscliff while we were there last weekend. Today she has a new accessory - spokey dokies.


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Birthday Party's, Attitude and Nappy free

Well she made it. After a few threats, Ruby turned 3 and had a fairy/dinosaur themed birthday party with her family. We missed out on our trip to the muesem due to the floods (which just happened to occur on Ruby's b'day) but we have promised to take her in again once it all opens back up.

We did try to take Ruby and Tilly last weekend but found out only after getting all the way to the city that the muesem was still closed after the floods. We did find in Southbank a free kids area that had been set up with a huge jumping castle/slide and the biggest sand pit - Ruby was in her element.

We know she is 3 and that this is normal behaviour for a 3 year old but we still can not believe our little angel has turned into little miss sometimes naughty. Ask her to do something and you get told, "I don't love that" and she will walk away and do something on the other side of the house or she will do something that she knows is wrong, wait until you are looking, do it and see what reaction she gets. Oh and the tears, Ruby will cry and sulk for no reason, if you aren't listening, doing what she wants or if she has just been told to go to her room.

On the other hand, she will give you the best hugs, tell you how much she loves you, help out doing the house work, play quietly when Tilly is sleeping and be super good. These extremes happen within minutes of each other and usually the naughty Ruby shows up when Tilly is awake.

Ruby loves her sister so much and is so keen to play with her. She just wants Tilly to be able to jump and run and be a little less fragile.

Ruby latest love is channel ABC 2 which runs kids programs all day! Recently when Ruby was playing up in the car, Dad said "you can go and live at Grandma's house if you don't stop .....", Ruby's reply was "OK, can I watch my programs".

Oh, and since just before her birthday Ruby stopped wearing nappies to bed, she is now nappy free full time.

Almost 3

Wow what a time Ruby has had the last few months. Santa has been to visit along with her new best friend Phoebe.

She has had her first trip to Dreamworld, a day at Build a Bear and many a late night playing with her cousins from England - yes she is going to miss them.

Ruby got so spoilt at Christmas that leading up to her birthday in the next few days there isn't much left to get her. The 'plan' is to take her to the muesem for her birthday to see the Dinosaur exhibition. Ruby is dinosaur mad at the moment and mummy is trying to organise a birthday party to suit, right down to the cake.

With everything closed for Christmas and the state of our weather (lots of rain) Ruby and Mummy have been doing quite a bit of baking together. Ruby even got her own red knife so that she can help chop the veges for dinner.

School and swimming lessons are due to start back up again in a week, it will be nice to get back a little routine for Ruby since Tilly came along.

Loving my baby sister

So far Ruby seems to be adapting quite well to our newest addition. The only times that we seem to be getting a little bit of attitude from Ruby is at bed time, when mummy is home on her own and having to get both Ruby and Tilly settled. Ruby wants mum all to herself and doesn't yet understand that Tilly just can't be put to bed while she is crying so that mum can sleep with her. But it's only been a little over a week, she will get used to having to share her mum.

Otherwise, though she is very keen to cuddle Tilly, change her bottom and read to her. She loves her to bits, constantly saying "look at her mummy, she is so tiny".

We are getting lots of nice photos of the girls together, (when Tilly is awake) and a nice video of Ruby reading a story to Tilly before bed time.

Friends - some real, some not so real

Ruby has in the last week or so found herself an imaginary friend called, Monk. Monk, helps her eat her dinner; he was chain sawing the couch and helps her pick what to wear, among other things. He seems to only get a mention though when Ruby is over tired, this could explain the weird things he does some days.

Ruby is absolutely enthralled with Dinosaurs at the moment. Did you know they made at least 7 different 'The Land Before Time' Movies? We didn't either until we went to get Ruby a kids Dinosaur movie from the Video shop. Some days we will have to feed the Dinosaurs, that are in our back yard, a snack or other days they are jumping on the trampoline with us.

Our little 3 year old has been causing tired mummy a little bit of grief the last couple of weeks, with no afternoon nap both mum and Ruby are grumpy and over it come 4pm. After butting heads and having way to many smacked bums an attitude change on mums behalf was implemented. Thank you to the Super Nanny, we now have a good girl chart and a naughty step and both of these a working much better than a raised hand and voice ever did. After seeing that Ruby will get a present when she gets to the end of her chart, Daddy requested that he have a good boy chart too. Ruby has 5 stars on her chart and Dad has 2 stars.

Oh and we are going to have to invest in a cheaper computer for Ruby, she is now very keen to send emails (copying mum). She doesn't realise that emails are suppose to be sent to people who you don't see everyday and will ask or tell you that she is going to send an email to her bubba, to mum or to dad, even if we are sitting right next to her. Ruby has also learnt how to turn the sound up but attacking the dial on the mouse and will without notice come into the office and bang away on the keyboard, creating a huge mess on the computer.

First School Photo

Our little girl has grown and changed lots in the last few months. She has even had her first ever "school" photo.

Daddy has taken Ruby out in the canoe on their own to catch fish and she loved it.

Daddy has even brought Ruby her own fishing rod and reel which apparently catches the most fish and has some how managed to become Daddy's new rod. When Ruby saw her rod in the back of the car after Dad had been out fishing on his own, she said "boo dadda, that's my rod".

It's been about 2 months now since Ruby gave up her Dummy at bed time. We have wrapped it up as a present for the baby. Ruby has also just recently given up on her day time naps. She is super tired but will fight and fight and fight and still not sleep.

Ruby has always been the boss but lately she has stepped it up to a whole new level. Everything is 'I will', or 'let me do it' and recently 'NOOOOOOOOOOOO'!!!

Ruby is loving her 'bubba' and pretending to be her mum, she will dress her every morning, change her nappy, take her for walks to the park and put her to bed at night. Yesterday we even had a birthday party for bubba, there were decorations, party hats for all the guests (they were of the stuffed variety) and drinks and cake (all pretend).

Ruby has also started singing, mainly in the car and about random things. There will be a dadda song, a mumma song and recently a song about the bush cows!!!

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!

Full of questions

Everything is a question with Ruby at the moment. Even if she knows the answer or you've just told her 6 times, you will still get asked "What's that".

Aside from this our little girl is an Angel, she is super funny, delicious and absolutely gorgeous. Ruby loves cuddles and will randomly launch at you with her arms open wide for a big cuddle.

She sings songs, recites her favourite books and generally talks all day.

Ruby loves school, "Ruby not come home mumma" is what I was told today when I went to pick her up and she is still loving her swimming lessons and trips to play gym.

In the last week we've been told that Ruby is moving up a class in swimming to Starfish and also going up to Seniors at school next term.

Ruby gives mummy's bump a cuddle everyday and will often ask to see the baby - which is getting bigger (much bigger than Ruby ever was).

Funny moment of the week:
Mummy has told Ruby previously that when she goes up to the stars Ruby can have the ring Daddy brought her. Yesterday while looking at Mummy's fingers Ruby announces that "Ruby can have mummy's ring when mummy goes to the stars with Grandma Alice, Nana and Papa and the Goat" (Goat is from the farm where we buy our vege).


Playing with Dad at the beach on the weekend - yes it was cold!

CRAZY

and not just from the ice cream Grandma Dianne has been giving her.

Ruby seems to turn into a Gremlin around dinner time every night. Running around the house, gibbering, making weird noises and just generally being uncontrollable.

She will not sit still long enough to eat anything decent going up, down around and around the kitchen bench, running from one room to the next.

We are hoping this crazy faze will pass as for most of the time Ruby is wonderful (and sometimes bossy).

She is very tough on her Dad, "Dadda stop talking to Mumma", "no Dadda don't hug Ruby", "Dadda sing to mumma"....

Ruby has finally started jumping properly and doesn't she love it. Unlike her cousin who runs and jumps like a 5 year old and has done since she was 1, Ruby has seemed quite awkward tripping over her feet and not quite mastering the jump rebound action required for the tramp. Now she's got it there's no stopping her. She loves being active and loves her weekly visits to playgym where she gets to play on all the gymnastic equipment.

Swimming wise Ruby is still doing really well and she is now being taught how to swim with proper arm actions and not just being told to paddle and kick. She is jumping in from the edge and will swim at least 5 - 10 metres to Dad under the water by herself.

Ruby in the equipment at Playgym