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.

Halfway Birthday!

Happy 6 Months to our little princess. And she is that in every sense of the word. She is already so prissy just like we knew she would be. She cuts her eyes at us and sometimes she looks at us, smiles, and hides her face like she's embarrassed. It's the cutest thing.

Here are just a few more things she enjoys....

Pears, bananas, apples---any fruit! She's loving the solids and I'm so glad I made the motherly decision that it was time, regardless of what the doctor said.

Rolling all over the place. Her favorite thing is when I lay her in her bedroom floor and let her go wild. And when I put her in her "play yard" she very quickly finds her way out.

Bouncing!!!! She absolutely loves when anyone holds her up to bounce. She loves "farming" too. Her bouncy is farm themed so when we put her in it we say "you wanna farm wooby?". Haha!

Morning time in bed with mom and dad. We are guilty. When she wakes up and it's not a work day we put her in the bed with us and she absolutely loves it. She talks and laughs and plays. And sometimes when we're lucky she falls back to sleep.

Looking at herself in the mirror. Haha, cracks me up. Another reason she's our little princess.

Talking. Loves loves loves to scream and talk.

Kathy and Grammie! I think those two are her favorites other than me and daddy of course. Her eyes just light up every time Jared drops her off at Kathy's. She's been getting to spend almost one day out of every weekend lately with Grammie and her Papa Wayne. Loves them!

I think that's about it. She's not quite sitting up yet by herself. She can do it but refuses to. She can also hold her own bottle but doesn't really like to do that either. It's ok with me though. I will let her depend on me as long as she wants. I know I will miss it someday. Jared and I were watching The Kardashian's (I know everyone is rolling their eyes) "Kendall's Sweet 16". They had a slide show of baby pictures and videos. We were both tearing up. I know he's gonna kill me for repeating that. He'll probably deny it too. But we just realize that it's all going to flash before our eyes and Ruby will be turning 16. I'm not ready for that at all!

Ruby has become the heart of our little family. I never knew what we were missing. I thank God for her every single night. I should be on knees for this blessing. Thank you God!




This was after bath time the other night. That's another thing she loves! Bath time!




After bananas. We also tried two bites of green beans which she hated. She's just not into the vegetables.




This is a Christmas outfit I bought her a couple months ago. I put a "fancy outfit" on her for her 6 month birthday and it was way TOO SMALL!!!!! Her daddy refused to take her to school in it.




So this is what she wore on her birthday! Happy Birthday sweet girl!

On another note, now that my big secret is out! My sisters are ENGAGED!!!! I had to wait to post about it because Liz's boyfriend Roger hadn't popped the question yet. He told me about it two weeks early! I almost exploded! I am so happy for both of my sisters.

And last... I told you all about the trip Jared got us for our anniversary to Mexico right?! Well, sadly, I've decided not to go. I have thought and thought about it and I just can't do it yet. I know it's 5 months away but that's not long at all to know for sure 100% I am not at all ready to leave Ruby for 4 days with no contact. I depend on the picture texts from my mom or whoever has her and I wouldn't have that. I just can't do it just yet. I've made Jared promise in 2013 (when I reach my 30s) we will go. I think it will be better then for me. However, I'll gladly take a babysitter for a night and a day to just rest and clean my house :). Any takers? Ha! I was kidding myself thinking I was so excited about doing something like that. It makes me sad but I'm happy with my decision.

That's all. I'm sure I won't post again until after Christmas so I hope you all have a very happy one.

Love,

~Sarah~

Santa and More

Well this weekend was huge. It started out a little rocky. Last week was just rough, period.

I told you about my great grandpa that passed away. Well his funeral was Wednesday. I caused my sister to completely miss it because my idiot self locked my keys in my car. I never do that! My sister's boyfriend Roger saved the day though. We got there as soon as it was over. My family said it was nice though. He was a World War II vet so it was a military service. I'm devastated that we missed it.

We got to visit Kristi's grave while we were there. That was pretty emotional. I made a tile picture of Ruby to lay on her and Brad's grave. I wish I would've thought to take a picture. I can't wait to go back by there on Christmas.

We spent the day in Mansfield with the fam and I just started falling apart. My eye was bloodshot red and I got this horrible toothache! My family kept saying "you work in a dentist office and you have a toothache?". So Thursday when I got back I got an X-ray of it and Dr. Martin didn't see anything so he sent me to an endodontist. She was able to see it on the machine she has. Technology these days! I had an infection above the root of a previous root canal. Yuck!

So Friday was full of appointments. I had to go to the eye doctor because my yearly was scheduled anyway and my eye was gross. I ended up having irritation from Ruby's butt medicine! The eye doctor knew exactly what I'd been using on her. I guess another reason I'm an idiot. I didn't wash my hands good enough before I put my contacts in. Then off for a root canal! So I've been taking antibiotics and eye drops with steroids to boost me back up. I'm hoping for a healthier, happier week this week.

Saturday was wonderful! Ruby got to meet Santa! But she has no idea she did. My mom, Wayne and Macy came up too and while we were waiting to see him Wayne put her to sleep. I thought I was going to wake her for the picture but Santa told me he had the perfect pose for a sleeping baby. So I trusted him and it turned out great. We are very happy with it.

Macy got to come home with us and I can't even explain how much Ruby enjoyed it. After I took her home today Ruby cried all the way to the tunnel. Then when we got home I swear she was looking around waiting for her to pop up. I can't wait for her to come stay again. She already asked me about the next weekend.

Tonight while we were getting Rubes ready for bed after her bath we had her in the floor just playing with her. I always say to her "Ruby, say ma-ma". Well tonight we were saying "say da-da". And she tried SO HARD to say it! I mean it really was amazing. She said "da.....da". I think it's just a matter of time! Made us a little emotional.

On another more serious note, Jared and I have been faced with a really big decision to make so I'm asking for prayers. I think I've decided that it's more him that doesn't know what to do. I feel like I have all the answers, of course. :) Anyway, we just want God to tell us what to do but at the same time we don't know exactly how to listen. If that makes any sense at all. I mean I like signs. Such as I don't think Farmington Dental Center would have let me go if God didn't want me at the job I'm at now. I don't think He'd give me the milk production He's given me all these months if He didn't want me breast feeding. ETC ETC! We just need some direction.




This is the tile I put on Brad and Kristi's grave. I know they're smiling at it!




Ruby and Santa









BEST BUDDIES!!!

I think I'll end it here because this has turned out entirely too long. I hope you all have a wonderful week!

P.S. I have a HUGE secret and it's eating me alive.

Love,


~Sarah~