Ruby the Houdini

Ruby had a little boo-boo on her toe last night, so we put a tiny band-aid on it, and then her Pajamas on, so that she couldn't get at it. When we woke her up this morning, somehow she had removed the band-aid from on her toe inside her pajamas and discarded it in the crib. houdini

This is late...

but, better late than never. A few weekends ago we had a blast celebrating fall, and i only NOW have time to share :)

we went to the pumpkin patch with friends, and saw some farm animals, picked our own pumpkin, and went on a hayride. The highlight was petting baby chicks though.

meet "Pork Chop"

I made an apple crisp, and this is what happens when i make apple crisp from a recipe on the internet: i end up with 3 LARGE pans of it. Apparently the recipe i stumbled upon must have been made for a family of giants.

We carved pumpkins at our annual carving party! SO much fun

Someone got her first pair of shoes. I think they've actually been on her feet for all of about 7 minutes since we got them :)

Ben was out of town last week for work so it was just "Aunt Mae" and i and Ruby. Us girls managed to keep ourselves out of trouble, for the most part... but we SURE DID have fun!! But, ofcourse we were glad when Ben finally got back home. The munchkin gifted him with a GIANT grin when he walked in.

the laughter button...

we finally found it! and boy have we been pressing it. we didn't each much halloween candy this weekend, because this was sweet enough!!! this was the total highlight of our weekend. enjoy!

the laughter button from Grace Saunders on Vimeo.

a collective work of art...

Mae's halloween costume!

why is the weekend always SO short?

we had a great weekend, and ended up getting to spend some time with Grams and Gramps, so Ruby had a great time (minus trying to remove her hat). It finally got chilly here, so we had fun digging out all the hats we got for Ruby. Since we discovered the swing it's been a weekend staple. This weekend we even tried out the slide, it was even better than i remembered ;) Here are some pictures from the weekend. Hope yours was great!

Sunday afternoon

at the park! enjoying the first of the fall weather, and the swings of course.





apparently we weren't the only ones who thought it was a good idea. We passed about 5 other couples/families with photographers on our way out. i guess it was pretty much a perfect day for it :)

crawling and pulling up. all for the remote

Ruby started to crawl! from Grace Saunders on Vimeo.

here she is crawling. like i said, hilarious!! and she's starting to want to pull up on things too. And, yes.. the reward? the remote control. she loves that thing :) we have no idea why.

live vicariously much?

Tonite we bought Ruby these pajamas that we found when we were out, that sport her name on them. Growing up i always wanted to find items that were pre-fabricated with MY NAME, but.. they didn't exist. And every time i'd see some cheesy display of name magnets, name t-shirts, name mugs.. you name it, i'd look for my name. But, nobody was selling pre-fab stuff with my name at that time. So, when i saw these pajamas, i immediately thought of that. And, we had to get them. Also, they're ridiculous-cute, and make her look even more like a kiddo, and less of a baby. Which, i can't decide if i'm alright with or not. ANyway, here they are.



this one is Ruby in the middle of an arm-flapping explosion of happiness:


Work has been a bit overwhelming since we got back into town, so i haven't made much time to update the blog. But, things are good. Ruby continues to grow like a weed. Her biggest recent milestone is that she's crawling now. It's hilarious, and makes me crack up almost every time she does it. It's like watching someone who has limbs with minds of their own attached to them, and they can't figure out really how they work, but they're SO glad that they DO work. We have some video that we'll get up here soon. So, she wants to crawl around and explore everything now, of course. Especially dog toys, and the actual dog. Those two are fast becoming best buddies. Here she's decided to crawl over my leg to get to.. SOMEthing.