Playing

Finally got a decent video of Ruthie playing in her 'fort' :)

cute!

Look how strong I am when I do my tummy time on a pillow! In the evenings I love to look around and climb over pillows or mom & dad's legs.

I also love seeing new places and people. The last two days I went to some new places and was content to just look around for about half an hour before I realized I wasn't being held.

I will be gone for over a week visiting grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I can't wait to see/meet all of them :). So because of that, I probably won't be doing much blogging for the next week or so (especially since both sets of grandparents have dial-up!). But you can look forward to lots more pictures after we get back.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!

-ruth

Mood swings

Every day I go back and forth from being incredibly happy and smiley to thinking the world is going to end if I don't get picked up. Here are a couple examples: in the first picture I am playing happily with mommy, and in the second I am screaming so hard I can't even open my eyes! Maybe I'm so upset because someone put me next to that giant giraffe head. It is actually part of the awesome quilt that Grandma R. made for me. You can see a couple more pictures of the quilt in my photo album.
-r

Hiccup!

This video is from when I was much younger. But I still have the same hiccup problems now as I did back then. I usually get the hiccups about 3 times a day, and they last for 10-15 minutes. It's really starting to get annoying! (sorry about the video quality...but it is still cute :)

New accomplishments

A couple things I have gotten much better at in the last week or so: 1-smiling even when I don't have gas; 2-making eye contact; 3-playing by myself; 4-making non-crying noises.

Check out the new pictures in the November album :)
-Ruth

all tuckered out

Whew! There's a lot of work to do around here. With all my eating, burping, pooping, and 'talking' (some might call it screaming...) I am just so tired at the end of the day. And then mom expects me to help fold the laundry! As you can see, I didn't get too much folding done. The big pile of warm clothes was just too much to resist :)
-ruth

Our Family

As promised, here is one of our brand new family photos. It was taken by Em on Thursday--isn't it awesome?
OK, gotta go. Just wanted to share that with everyone :)