Thursday, September 5, 2013

Labor Day Weekend

We had another fun week this week. This picture is after grocery shopping on Friday. We bought wipes at Costco, and Ruby wanted me to open the box, and then she proceeded to take out all of the wipes and put them back in. Silly girl. She has really gotten good with her climbing, to the point of where she tries to climb on the arms of the couch or onto the coffee table (both are off limits). So we've been doing time out some more. I still don't think she really knows what's going on with time out, but hopefully she'll figure it out soon.
Andy's starting seminary next week! It will be an interesting semester with him having class on Monday nights, but since it's only one class, I don't think it will be too bad. We're excited for him.
Friday night we headed up to Portland for Andy's friend Matt's birthday party at a park. Ruby loved the sidewalk chalk...
... and drew on everything in sight. :)
We stayed the night at the Pullens because Del's birthday was Saturday and we all went out to dinner. Ruby liked climbing inside this thing.
Chloe and Charlotte got to ride with us to dinner, and they all had fun.
We got ice cream downtown, and went to a park with music. Ruby wanted to dance.
Sliding with Daddy.
Here's the family photo.
And Del and Patty with their grand kids. I tried to get Katie to stick her belly in the picture too :)
A lady bug got in our house, so we played with it for a while. There was a snail inside today and always lots of flies... I think we have a hole somewhere.
On Monday we had a barbecue at the Butenschoen's house. Ruby loved "fwimming" as usual.
They went around and around, trying to do a whirlpool.
Playing with Audrey.
Daddy was tired, but Ruby wanted to play.
So cool.
She wanted to dress Angeles, so we put her newborn sleeper on her. Today she wanted to feed her "strawberry juice" to her Dolly (a bottle that looks like a strawberry). She's starting to play pretend, which is so cute. She pretended something was an airplane, and she pretends things are food.
Spinning in the sari from India.
Helping Mommy make crab cakes. She poured the cayenne pepper in all by herself and then sneezed a few times :)
So much fun.
Helping Daddy feed the chickens our leftover corn cobs.
She always does this when I'm sorting the laundry.
They have baby chicks back at Wilco, so we went to go see them yesterday. They had the heat lamps pretty low, and Ruby reached out and touched it while saying "light". Sadly she burned two of her fingers :(
Watching a movie to distract her. See the bandaids.
She did really well with it and didn't even cry. One of them has a blister now though. I had her play in cold water at home to draw out the heat. She really liked that.
She loves wearing our shoes.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

19 Months

Sorry for the photo overload (again). I'm sure none of you mind :) Ruby just does so many cute things, I can't help but take lots of pictures. She turned 19 months on Monday! We celebrated by watching a Giants game on tv. They lost, but we still had fun. We've been busy trying to enjoy these last weeks of summer before the rainy days come. It's been a great summer this year for sure! I like to do some kind of activity with Ruby in the mornings to get us out of the house so we don't get bored. When it gets rainy that will probably get harder. Then we are home for lunch and she naps every day from 1:00 to 3:00 or 4:00, every once-in-a-while she'll sleep until 4:30. Then Daddy comes home and we make/eat dinner and play, then bedtime starts at 7:00, and she's asleep by 7:30. It's a great routine, and she seems to do really well with it. Here are some photos from our week!
 She's such a girl. We stopped by the church for a visit and popped in the big kid nursery (where she will be soon). She had lots of fun rocking the dolly.
 She insisted on carrying the bowl of tomatoes into the house. She really likes helping me pick them.
 We had a fire pit night at our friends' house on Friday. She was up later than usual, so she was pretty tired so she sat with Daddy.
 Andy was busy playing paint ball with the middle school guys on Saturday, so Ruby and I went to the Aumsville corn festival and parade.
 She said the trucks were "loud" and wanted to hold my hand. She had lots of good scowls, but we also had fun. :) 
 She liked the flowers a lot.
 We rode our tandem bike the the park.
 Pretty coat and skirt.
 Helping Daddy shuck the corn for dinner.
 Tada!
 She really likes to climb on things, and has been "jumping" from the ottoman to the chair in the living room. She hasn't quite gotten real jumping down, but she sure tries.
 Bedtime Bible story reading with Daddy. 
 On Monday we went out for a coffee date in Silverton.
 And watched the game. Ruby was excited about having her own chair.
 Playing around with Daddy.
 Cheesy smile.
 She lined her pacis up on her crib.
 She looks like such a big girl in her jeans and pigtails!
 I took her to visit Daddy while I got my hair cut yesterday. They had fun!
 She's been wanting to sit on her potty the last few days. She hasn't gone potty in it yet, but at least it's a start!
 Bath time is so much fun!
 We bought her this backpack to take her stuff places instead of hauling the huge diaper bag around. She really likes it.
 Sitting on the potty again.
 Lounging around on the bed.
Helping Daddy fix the dish washer.

Family photos

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