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!