Nakey

These are a few of my favorite recent pictures.
Messy hair, drool on my shoulder, and a dimply baby booty. Simply the best.

I love this chunky girl SO much.

Ruby--Three Months

3 months old (plus 10 days)! Here I go again saying that time is just flying by way too quickly. 

Ruby gets more and more fun every single day. She is truly full of sunshine and happiness and makes our lives so much sweeter than we ever could have imagined! 

I really have a lot that I am excited to blog about (Ruby's first trip to Texas, Thanksgiving, other fun events), but just have not had the time or energy to get around to it. Hopefully I can soon! I'm feeling accomplished enough just getting this post up, though! 

We definitely have a little chatterbox on our hands! I have told Andrew several times that once Ruby decides to start talking (like with actual words) our ears are going to be worn out, because this baby LOVES to hear herself talk. She is quite vain, actually, and loves to look at herself in a mirror while talking to herself. It's adorable and makes me smile like nothing else. 

We've been to the doctor twice since her two month visit. Once to check out her head and torticollis, and a second time to check out a little cold she had. Both times she has surprised us with her weight gain. The first time (which was right around her 3 month birthday) she weight 13 lbs. Needless to say, the girl isn't going hungry. She is our happy little chunk. 

Speaking of her torticollis (mentioned in 2 month post if you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about), she is getting MUCH better at looking left (see below pic)! We have tried to be very diligent about doing her neck stretches, even though it's a horrible feeling to make your baby cry. I can definitely see a difference. She looks to the left without even being prompted by a toy or voice. I'm so proud of her. We were getting a little bit concerned this month about the right side of her head getting pretty flat. I had read a lot about positional plagiocephaly (basically flat head syndrome), and just wanted to make sure we were doing the right thing for her. Our doctor confirmed that she does have mild positional plagiocephaly, but he didn't recommend any type of correctional device, like a helmet. Since then she has started sleeping on her belly because she sleeps remarkably better that way, and I can see a difference in her head shape already. We're encouraged by her progress and know that this is something I'll look back on and probably not even remember how much it stressed me out a few years down the road. I am grateful for a great, understanding pediatrician who is conservative and not to hasty to jump to unneeded interventions.

A couple of nights ago Ruby slept for a whole EIGHT hours straight. Pretty amazing! I woke up to my alarm, jumped out of bed, and ran into her room to make sure she was still breathing because it freaked me out so bad that she hadn't woken me up at 3am! She was still breathing, and even slept for another hour to let me shower and get ready for work. Boy, did I enjoy that! Good thing, because it ended the next night. I didn't change anything about her schedule, feedings, ANYTHING, but she was back to waking up once a night the next night. It's really not a big deal to me, I honestly really enjoy the time I get with her at our 3am feeding. I definitely wouldn't mind a few more 8 hour stretches of sleep, though! Whenever you're ready Rubes, I am too, until then I'll soak up our middle of the night cuddles. 

She seriously is the most happy go lucky baby I have ever known. I can't get over how much she doesn't cry. She gets annoyed if she has to wait for a meal (but who doesn't?!), and gets REALLY angry if you pick her up from her crib after a nap or bedtime and then go straight to the changing table. She's all "UMMM, HELLO! I just got done laying by myself for over an hour and now you're wanting to set me down AGAIN?! No thank you....I wanna cuddle!" So generally (unless poo is involved), we let her get a few minutes of hold time before changing her diaper after a nap. Easy-peasy. 

Ruby is still in size 1 diapers, but I think after this pack we might try out some size twos because she has had several blow outs this week. She fits into almost all of her 0-3 month clothes still and is comfortably wearing most of her 3 month clothing. She wears a couple of 3-6 month onesies that I bought at Old Navy, but they are still too big. I busted out the 3-6 month box of clothes that we have, but decided it was too early since she still fits into all of her 0-3 month stuff...I get too excited about all the "new" clothes we have waiting for us! 

I think we are going to have a little blondie on our hands. She has recently sprouted some very long hairs on the top of her head (you can kinda see them in the above picture), and they are all blonde. She still has her dark brown swirl in the back, but is starting to loose some of it from laying on her back. It's going to be fun to see what color/type of hair she ends up with. Either way, it'll be beautiful! 

Ruby is the girl of many nicknames. Poor thing might not know what her name is we call her so many different things. Ruby, Rue, Rubes, Rue Rue, Boo, Chick, Chicken, Turtle, Birdie, Baby girl, Punkin, Sweetie, doll, and the list goes on and on. Don't ask me why she gets called so many animal names...it just happened...and I like it!

 

She's hanging onto the baby blues for now...we'll see if they change. Her doctor mentioned randomly to me that most of the time when babies eyes are as blue as hers are, they generally stay blue (or a like color). This is surprising to me...for some reason I always figured my babies would have brown/hazel eyes like their daddy...but it's looking like Ruby has got her mama's eyes. 

We are SO blessed by this girl! So very thankful to have her in our lives!

Darling girl, 

Oh my goodness, we love you SO much! The other day when we were riding in the car to church, you were just singing and chatting to yourself in the backseat and your dad and I just smiled at each other. Daddy said that he can't imagine our lives without you, that you're apart of us and it's so perfect and wonderful. It's true, we really cannot imagine not having you with us. It's such a blessing to get to be your parents. It's definitely the best thing we've ever done! You make us laugh, smile, and light up our world every single day. I hope you grow to know how much you are loved by us, and that eventually that translates into you being able to understand the love of Jesus who loves you so much more perfectly and endlessly than we ever could. 

Happy three months, Ruby girl. 

Love you to the moon and back, 

Mama

"Alright guys, enough pictures!"