4 months!

Ruby was 4 months old this past Sunday. She had her well baby visit Monday and her official stats are 20 lbs, 28" (even!). Everything looked great at the docs, she has some dry skin we're going to try extra hard to moisturize. She even started rolling over Monday morning! She must have wanted to give us something to report.

Hipster babies.

Happy valentines day!

Milestones!

Ruby turned three months yesterday!! She celebrated by graduating by going into size 3 diapers & size 9 months clothes! Andrew & I have spent the day sorting through the boxes I thought I carefully packed from when Cece outgrew them :) but she should be good to go now.











Cece has been a rock star at potty training. After a week of practice she's upgraded to cute Mickey Mouse undies!

Can you tell we are related?

Cece's current obsession is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (probably because we just stocked up on all the Sesame St guys). After pretending her blocks were the various characters I decided to buy her an official set of the sensational six. I hemmed and hawed about it but finally decided on a set I found on Amazon and had them shipped (with a few other things) the slow way.

Monday I got an amazon box, basically all the other things... But when my mom brought up the box, she asked if I had been expecting the package in a way that was curious. I said I had been, why?

She had bought Cece a set of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse guys and she was hoping it might be that.

They of course both arrived today.

and they were of course exactly the same:)

I wish weekends were longer.

dirty carrots

In case you haven't had the pleasure of dining with Cece, I'll start by saying normally she's an excellent eater and will try most things. Tonight, however, was not one of those nights. I made a pot roast in the the crock pot w/potatoes, carrots, onions- the works.  Carrots are her fave, so I gave her just about all of them.  Extra delicious carrots that have been cooking with the roast since about 9am. We all sit down to eat and she's not having ANY of it.  No carrots, No meat, NO MUMMA!!!

After we'd eaten, I had a thought. It took me by surprise- thoughts are hard to come by these days.

"Cece!" I said, "Can you eat a carrot with your eyes CLOSED?! I bet you can't"
What child can resist such a challenge. I know you're wishing for pictures right now, but I couldn't risk the distraction. (very unlike me, but my phone was charging across the room).

Tonight we learned Cece can in fact eat carrots with her eyes closed, and meat, AND a zucchini. (Well, she peeked at the zucchini.) The onion was a no-go, but she gave it a shot.  There was lots of applauding at all these eyes-closed eating skills. This system all worked pretty well until I tried to get her to eat another carrot, with her eyes open.

"No mumma. yuck. dirty."

Oh well, more dirty carrots for the rest of us.