Ruby Rubes and Charlotte Too!: December 2009

Yay for Gamma! Mom arrived on Wednesday and Ruby is in heaven! Not to mention Mommy and Daddy are LOVING the extra help and date nights!! Ruby and Gamma bonded right away, Ruby ordered Gamma to sit with her in the back seat on the drive home from the airport and has been ordering her around ever since. Gamma doesn't seem to mind. :) At night time, Ruby "requests" that Mommy, Daddy AND Gamma get in bed with her (in a specific order, of course) for her stories and songs. It's a pretty funny sight to see, I would imagine.

Ruby seems to have grown right before our eyes in the past month. Not only physically but mentally. Now when we ask her why she did something, she says, "because"...and then goes into a long explanation. She also asks "because why?" When we tell her to do certain things. She's a pretty smart cookie and knows exactly what she wants. I overheard her counting backwards from 10 the other day! She's very particular on how she wants things done. A lot of the time, I'll come into the living room and she'll have each of her babies and dolly sitting on different chairs. If you ever come visit, DO NOT move them. They are there, on those particular spots for a very specific reason.

Ruby had her very first haircut last week. We went to this really cute salon that's specifically for kids. She was really excited but started to get a little nervous as she was waiting. She did great and even got some glitter hairspray at the end. She loved that part!

Ruby is pretty excited for Christmas. She really, really, really wants a double stroller for her dolls!?! Yes, I found one. We walk down the street frequently to a neighbor's house to look at their huge blown up Santa and the other night when we were leaving she turned around and said, "bye Santa, don't forget my double stroller!" We just about died laughing.

We are SO excited for Auntie El and Uncle B to come on Wednesday. An LL Bean commercial came on the other day and Ruby was playing away and all of a sudden looked up and said, "El and B???"

Have a great Christmas all! xoxo

Before the haircut.

Goofy girl, waiting to get her hair cut.

Still waiting, getting a little nervous!

VERY serious. She didn't take her eyes off me.

Still serious. :)

After. Glitter hairspray and all.

Hugging the snowmen at Home Depot.

She loved these guys!

Decorating the tree with Daddy.

First attempt with Santa failed miserably.

This Santa looked like the real deal!

Bella, Santa (needing a drink) and Ruby.

Santa pretending to cry.

Notice anything "off" about this picture. Hint, she got into Gamma's eyebrow pencil!

Pouring Gamma some tea.

Cheers!

Watching Dora with Gamma.

Ready for tea. Big Doggy likes tea too!

The whole gang taking a ride on Big Doggy.

Baking with Gamma. Check out the ridiculously cute matching aprons Gamma made!

We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving! We took our first long road trip with Ruby to Pinehurst, NC to Dave and Toni's beautiful home. Ruby was beyond ecstatic to see her cousins Andy, Emily, Luke and Evan. Every day for about 3 weeks before we left, she wanted to hear about our trip to see her cousins. She was a trooper for the car ride, we broke it up to two days and she LOVED staying over night at the hotel. Of course the DVD player we bought for the car was a hit. The cousins hit it off and played together very well and the adults had a great time too. We had a fun visit from Stephen and Stephanie - Ruby was a little shy with Uncle Stephen and his big beard at first but warmed up and actually fell asleep for the night to one of his new slower songs. We then had a jam session out on the porch with singing, music and dancing. Great times!

This is a short update for now but I will do a new one next week. Love to all!

We're on our way!