Monday, March 9, 2009

What a whirlwind!

Well we have had a lot of activity happening over the past few weeks! Doug & I took a trip to FL last week (Sun-Wed) to find a place to live. We have decided to rent the first year and are going with a townhouse in a little community called Abacoa in Jupiter, FL. It seems like a really fun, social, young community with lots going on so we're excited to get settled in. We'll be 4 miles from beautiful Jupiter Beach - we expect you all to visit! :) A huge THANK YOU to Miss Priscilla and Beth & Tommy for taking such good care of Rubes while we were gone. She had a blast! Doug drove back down yesterday and started his job today. Rubes and I will move down the beginning of April. We've had a good amount of people looking at our house but no offers yet. Hopefully something will happen soon! My last day of work with AT&T is this Wednesday and then I'm back to being a full time stay-at-home mom (yikes)! I'm really looking forward to it but am also aware that it will be a little bit of an adjustment. I've already joined a mommy's group in Jupiter so I'm anxious to get there and start participating in events. It looks like a nice group of ladies and kids. A lot of Northern transplants. :) Ruby is hilarious. She's just getting smarter and smarter every day. She can now sing her ABCs and count to 10 and walks around the house singing the Barney song. I guess songs can get stuck in your head at 18 months too! She's mastered the art of being a drama queen and collapses on the floor in a heap of misery if I give her water instead of milk or if I put on Barney instead of The Wiggles, etc...I've noticed that as long as I ignore her and act like it's no big deal, she'll usually get back up within 5 seconds and be fine. I just have to choose my battles. Ruby loves to tease Mommy and Daddy and whenever I hear "Mommy" in a certain taunting tone I know she's doing something she shouldn't be and wants me to see. Like licking her arm after I put the sunscreen on or writing on her books with marker, and the list goes on! At least she knows right from wrong, right??? We are beyond excited to have Auntie Em coming on Thursday, she'll be here for 2 weeks, yippee!! We're taking a little bit of a girls road trip this weekend to Chattanooga to see Holy Ghost Tent Revival perform. Beth & Tommy have agreed to take Ruby again - boy am I EVER going to miss them!Here are some pictures from the past couple of weeks.

Enjoying the lovely weather at the park this weekend.

Ruby's prefered method of going down a slide.
Who's that girl in the mirror?
Smelling the flowers Mommy planted.
Rainy day.
Touching worms for the first time!
Giddyup!
Ruby and friends.
I turned my back for one second!!
Little Mommies.
Feeding the baby doll.
Giving Lexy a big hug.
Best buds with Uncle Tommy.
I sense a theme...hugging Mandy.
Talking to baby Sarah in Mandy's belly.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok, the one in the rain jacket almost killed me it's so cute!
j-a

Southern Leonards said...

I LOVE the ones of the two of us. I am going to miss her so much...wahhhh.

JAN said...

Oh she's gorgeous. And it sounds like she is well on her way to the terrible twos... lol. Good luck on your house selling.