Crawling Baby!

As I said last night, I'm just going to start posting when I think of something. Ruby crawled! It was short and so sweet. Of course she didn't do it again so I couldn't get it on video but it was awesome!

Also, another thing she's been doing.. When I sing to her she sings with me. It cracks us up. Of course it's just oooos and aaaaas but it's so cute!

Today Kathy said she was changing her diaper and Ruby dropped her toy. She picked it up and said "would you like it back?". And she swears R said "yeah". Jared and I thought she said "yeah" the other day too. Pretty crazy. We have a talker on our hands. At least he got one thing from her mama! I just love my baby!

Girls girls girls....

Goodness... I feel like I'm constantly behind on my blogging. Maybe I should start blogging (since I can do it from my phone) right when I think of something I want to say!

I don't even know what I blogged about last so forgive me if I repeat myself.

Things are good in the Inman house. Ruby is growing way too fast. I'm trying to just relish in what she's doing now rather than wanting her to take the next step. I've had so many women tell me to treasure these baby moments so that's exactly what I'm doing.

She's trying really hard to crawl. She's gets on all 4s and rocks back and forth over and over again. She's also trying to pull up. When I stand her up she takes little steps. I have a feeling it won't be a long time in between crawling and walking.

She's still not sleeping all night. She's waking up at around 12:30 and 5 but always back to sleep pretty easy. I asked her doctor today why and basically it's because I nurse her to sleep. That's her theory anyway. She told me to try laying her down before she falls asleep and letting her put herself to sleep. Tonight I decided to give her a bottle and try that method but the little stinker tricked me. She fell asleep before she even finished it. So, we'll just keep working on it. I don't see us handling the whole making her cry it out method well so we'll just keep doing what we're doing. If its us that soothes her right now then so be it. Her ears were all clear thank goodness. Still a little red on that one ear but no infection. She also got her flu booster shot that I forgot she was getting so she wasn't happy at all. Poor girl.

I've also been going back and forth with whether or not I will keep up my pumping and breast feeding. It's seriously the hardest job in the world, has to be! Especially when I am working on top of it all. I was doing it 4 times a day but I've cut back majorly. I have a lot frozen so I know we can make it without formula at least two more months but I would want to save some for if she got sick. I just don't know. Jared is telling me it's ok but for some reason I have this horrible guilty feeling in the pit of my stomach. He says Ruby will eat anything, which is true. I think it's more me than anything. I will miss it but I just feel like its time to move on. We shall see.

Her babysitter Kathy's father in law is sick. He is 91 years old and they've called in hospice. Please pray for them. He lives in Illinois so Kathy will be out for several days when he goes so I'm worried about having to take off for that. I definitely can not afford it but what can I do?!? I hate not having family around. But there's really not anyone in our family that doesn't work.

What else.... Oh... Man... Time to get a bit sappy and deep. I have a few very important and impressionable young ladies in my life, Ruby being one of them. One the most important things to me is teaching her the value of friendship. I have one of the best friends and relationship in Lindsey. I feel like I am truly blessed with someone like her in my life along with my sisters and a couple other very good friends. I don't think all women have that sometimes ever in their lifetime. Someone they can say anything to and know without a doubt it will not be repeated nor will I be judged in any way. That being said, I find it very important that I don't pretend to be someone I am not. I don't hang out with people who I don't trust or enjoy their company just because they are a part of the group. I don't do it to be malicious towards anyone. It's just who I am. I don't really know where I'm going with this other than I can only hope and pray Ruby sees earlier in life rather than later how caddy girls can be sometimes. I don't want anyone to ever hurt her feelings especially someone who isn't worth it and later in life she will think "why did I care about that?". I don't want her to be a mean girl but I want her to know what and who is important and not to sweat the small stuff. Ok that was just something I had to get off my chest! :)

Well I think that's all. I don't have any new pictures. I need to get better at that. Have a good rest of the week!

PICTURES!!!

I forgot to post the most recents!

Very Quickly

I thought I would catch everyone up real quick. Well "everyone" meaning those of you who care to read about my life. :)

Let's see... I don't even remember what I blogged last. So I'll just go through the past week.

Saturday morning when we woke up we put Ruby in bed with us like always. Jared got up to go to the bathroom and Ruby lifted her hand up, did a little wave and said "bye bye dada". I was in shock. I asked Jared to come back because after that she just kept saying it. It was so cute and I needed him to share that precious moment with me. For the rest of the day she just talked and talked and talked. I loved every single minute of it! We just sat home all day long. She is saying "bye bye, up, dada, mama". Pretty amazing if I do say so myself.

Sunday we loaded up and headed down to Fort Smith. The bridal fair was going on so I went with my sisters. It was a lot of fun. They didn't win anything but I'm pretty sure they got a lot of ideas. Ruby had a blast. We stopped by her Glamma and Papa's (my dad's) house after that. I do NOT get her by there enough! She was pretty tired by the time we got home at 8. I just kept promising her I wouldn't keep her awake like that again for a long time. It's so sad when she's so tired. I know 6-6:30 is an early bedtime but she totally dictates that time and there's nothing I can do about it. Even if she were to have a 3 hour afternoon nap, she is still ready for bed. Sometimes I hate it because I'd like it if Jared and I could go eat sometimes. But oh well!!!

Monday Jared started back with the Jorgensen's. I think it's going great and I can't say it enough, I'm so happy for him.

I've kind of had a rough week so please say some prayers. Jared and I have been talking tonight and we're chalking it up to separation anxiety on my part. I'm just REALLY missing Ruby this week. I have cut back to one pump session a day and I have no idea if that's causing it or what. My hormones are just crrrrazy!

Ok hope you all are having a good week!

Holiday Highlights

I haven't posted since before Christmas so I'm going to try to make this short and sweet.

We had a great Christmas. Ruby received so many gifts she doesn't know what to do with. Or maybe it's is that doesn't know what to do with them. Her big gifts were her walker toy for later on from Grammy and Papa, a princess rocking horse from Aunt Liz, Roger and the girls and a high chair from Nana and Poppy. She got tons of other toys, clothes and books. Very soon I will be doing some re-arranging of her room to make room for her new things. Very blessed little girl.

She came down with fever last Wednesday so we took her to the doctor. She has/had an ear infection and a cold which I guess go hand in hand. She never really acted just totally miserable but she wasn't herself by any means. Broke my heart. She seems to be feeling better though: I feel pretty lucky that it took 6 months for any bad sickness' and hope its 6 more months until her next one. Or never, that would be good too. But wishful thinking I know.

Yesterday morning I felt her second tooth poking through. I'm thinking the cold symptoms come with each tooth being cut because this is the second time it's happened. Poor girl. I've had the worst toothache for a month now so I can only imagine how bad it hurts her. There's nothing worse than tooth pain.

We rang in 2012 with the Thomas'. Their house is very accommodating for our family so we went over to slumber with them for the night. Emmie and I were certain we wouldn't make it to midnight but before we knew it it was 11:30 and we hadn't even had dinner yet. It was fun catching up with them. So crazy that we all have kiddos now. Emmie and I are lucky if we get to har lunch together once a week so having some adult time was nice.

The last news for us is Jared is switching jobs. This is something we thought and prayed about and we both know without a doubt it's the right decision for our family. He will be going back to the job he started out at after college. I'm very happy for him and so proud. He is a great provider and leader for our family and nothing makes me happier than him being happy. And a happy baby of course. :)

Just a few random pictures before I go.