swing, swang, swung.

Ruby had her first swing experience! She's still quite tiny for the swing, but she enjoyed watching the kiddos and having mama tickle her feet.





PS - it's GORGEOUS here. 75. Sunny. Perfect day for this little family to chillax at the park!

ELEVEN months!!

It's been 11 months! This has been such a fun stage - she's ticklish, loves her mama and daddy, is super vocal, crawls around everywhere and pulls herself up onto furniture, loves to explore new areas of the house, and has just the cutest little laugh and personality! She says "Dada dada dada da-DEE!" all the time. We'll be in her room and she'll hear the door open and she'll look towards the door and say "Da Dee??" We're working on the Ma sounds, but that's a little bit harder to manage for little mouths. :) She'll clap when we say "Yay Ruby!", she'll sign "all done" when she finishes her milk or "more" if she wants more puffs, she opens and closes all the doors in the house, and she gives high fives. She's pretty awesome.

request central

We take requests. We do. We're like Delilah. So if you want to see Ruby doing something, just ask.

I want to see an Irish Ruby.

Done.

I want to see that girl move!

Today... the bird crawling...

Now I'm in an uploading mood:

Over a month ago... picking through for blueberries...



My mom was in town and Ruby wanted to jump! jump!

all better...

Ruby's all better... and has been since Tuesday night. Sorry I left you on pins and needles. You all must have been so worried! :)

Ruby's hair is growing like weeds. Pretty, fine, and blond weeds. So we've been clipping her bangs back with a little barrette out of her eyes for some time now. But that barrette never stays in place. So I moved up to the elastic the other day and she was just too cute not to capture!

sick baby...

Sick baby at home today... and I'll be honest - I'M exhausted from taking care of the little one!! She was so tired and cranky all day and just wanted to cuddle... which is so wonderful... but exhausting at the same time. Send her some good thoughts... we're hoping for our chipper, smiley Ruby to return when she wakes up tomorrow...

PS - photo taken/edited in the instagr.am app - I rarely use it, but feel free to follow me! username: audreydunlop

two things...

1. Amazon is amazing. I was always a diapers.com kinda girl until I discovered this Amazon Mom thing from amazon.com - you get 15% off basic baby needs (diapers, wipes) by just signing up. No fees, no secret handshakes... just sign up. THEN, there's this "Subscribe and Save" thing where if you set up something to be delivered on a regular basis, you get an EXTRA 15% off. So I just put in an order for 2 packs of diapers to be delivered every month and because I'm an amazon mom and it's through their subscribe and save program, it's 30% off! Everytime! And then I set up a big refill pack of wipes to come once every 6 months and same thing - 30% off!! On top of that, it's free 2 day shipping and you can cancel or change your subscription any time you want to. I'm in love.

2. I know that was boring. Here's your reward:


I'm in love with this too... :)

You're a tiger!!

Or a cheetah. One of the two anyway. Sleepy PJ mornings with Ruby!




Sorry for the delay in posting. Ruby likes to be on the computer and slaps the keys as she looks at pictures of herself on the blog. Yesterday we realized our "t", "h", "c", and "v" keys weren't working. Hmmm... no more "typing" for Ruby. BUT, good news - we restarted the computer and all is well. But for awhile there we thought blogging would be terribly hard. Imagine:

Sorry for e delay in posing. Ruby likes o be on e ompuer and slaps e keys as se looks a piures of erself on e blog. Yeserday we realized our "", "", "", and "" keys weren' working.

It stresses me out just looking at it. Thankfully, all is as it should be. For now.

TEN months!

Double digits!! The next (and only other) time that will be significant is in 9 years and 2 months - cra cra! Well... taking her pictures on the big white chair without Josh around is not happening. She's officially a flight risk. This girl loves to move. Only one week ago she was so apprehensive about crawling and now she just won't stay still (unless she pauses for a cuddle with mama... LOVE!). As everyone has said, our lives have changed now that she's mobile. Not as much as they will once she can walk (I mean, it takes her a solid 3 minutes to get from the living room to the kitchen - she's not THAT fast). But she is pulling herself up on things which definitely spices things up and standing/walking with mom/dad's fingers is one of her favorite activities as of late. No more sitting on the couch for mom and dad! Fun new change: every morning when I go in to get her (after she's slept a solid 11 hours - Hallelujah!), she's sitting up in her crib and waves at me with her cute bed head and rosy cheeks. I'm tellin' ya... she's too precious.










I think this is a good representation of how she feels about taking her monthly photos now:

a little blurry from her wiggling and the face says it all - "COME! ON! MOM! I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE! LET ME GO CRAWL!"
... or this one....

"Hey mom, I got something for ya..." Is my little monkey flipping me the bird?? :)

just because...

sequence shots of adorableness...