Still sick...

Unfortunately, we're all still feeling under the weather. Daddy is almost better but Ruby and Mommy are having a pretty bad week. Hopefully things will turn around this week. Mommy is lucky she has such a great boss who let her work from home some of last week. We're also very lucky to have Miss Priscilla, she is so good to Ruby. The weather's starting to get chilly here so out came the hat and mitts! Ruby's laughing at Mommy pretending to trip and fall.

We went to a toy store this weekend and let Ruby loose to see what she likes so we could get some good ideas for Christmas. She loved the rocking horse, the big stuffed doggies and the babies. Boy, did she love those babies!

WE GOT OUT...ON A DATE...ALONE!

Thanks to Beth for babysitting, we finally got out to celebrate Mommy's birthday.

Mommy got out a peach to eat but Ruby stole it. She ate almost the entire thing!!!

Ruby likes to gather her toys and sit with them on the hearth and watch TV. She's really starting to climb now and the hearth is one of her favorite spots. This weekend she's also climbed up on the coffee table and a kitchen chair. I think we're really going to be busy now!

A house full of sickies...

It is officially cold and flu season and it has hit our house! It started with Daddy, then Ruby, then Mommy and seems to be back to Ruby again. No fun!! Ruby usually likes to watch Barney in the evening sitting in her rocking chair but was feeling too tired to sit up, so she found a more comfy place to watch. Poor baby.

Learning how to slurp spaghetti. She was concentrating very hard and so proud of herself when she actually figured out how to do it.

Sporting a mowhawk. Very amusing to Mommy and Daddy.

Ruby loves her babies! Is it just me or is that a miniature Doug???

Rubes and her BFF Ian. Ian got a cool new ride for his 3rd birthday! He came to pick Ruby up for dinner and drinks at 7pm. Daddy wouldn't let them past the end of the cul-de-sac. :)

Old married couple!

Ruby loves knocking down the towers we build. She gets very excited!!

Halloween!

We hope everyone had a fun Halloween! Ruby was our little skeleton - her bones glowed in the dark! She didn't quite get the concept of Trick or Treating and some of the costumes she saw scared her but we had lots of fun! Unfortunately, Daddy was really sick and couldn't come out with us through the neighborhood.

We went down to our neighborhood grocery store (Publix) to do some early Trick or Treating and Ruby got a cookie with her name on it! As you can see she LOVED it! We probably shouldn't have given her the whole thing though because when Mommy said we had to put the cookie away for later, she did not like that idea. So we survived our first temper tantrum in public!

Ruby's our little fashionista! She loved Miss Priscilla's daughter (Maddison's) ear muffs and scarf. She just loves Miss Priscilla's girls and loves it when the "big kids" get off the bus to play with her.

Pretty Fall pose, thanks to Miss Priscilla. :)

OK, so I thought this one was hilarious! She looks like a cute little Troll baby!

Mommy and Ruby. Ruby's wearing her pretty Princess hat that Mommy's friend Christina brought her last year. To Mommy's delight, Ruby likes to wear hats now and won't rip them off the second they get put on her head!

Ruby goes down slides all by herself now. If that isn't a mischievous face, I don't know what is!

For a few nights in a row, when we checked on Ruby before we went to bed, she was sleeping like this! Who knows why but luckily Daddy was able to move her without her waking up.

Ruby LOVES playing outside. She has so much fun watching Mr. Brian and Ian fly Ian's kite. She also loves driving around in her "ruck". Ruby adores Ian and even said his name the other day. She likes giving him big hugs.