Ruby Hope McKee Starling

It's early and I'm getting ready to head out for my "long" run.   For those of you wandering, marathon training and motherhood requires some juggling.  Like daily 4 :15 wake-ups.  I'm not complaining, but Ruby sleeps later than me every single day.  The good thing is we both take  nice long naps in the afternoon.  Only 4 more weeks until my marathon. 

Ruby has really blossomed this week.  By blossomed I mean begun moving fast.  By the end of the day all books with in her reach are on the floor and have been "read".  It's to the point that I don't even pick them up until she's asleep at night.  That way they are ready and waiting for her "read" them the next day.  She will crawl right past toys to get to a book.  She also loves to get a book and sit in your lap and flip through it.  Sometimes she doesn't even want you to read it to her.  She wants to do it her self.  I have feeling we're in trouble.

I've discovered that Ruby hates to ride in grocery carts.  Now that we can take her to the grocery store.  It's been a learning curve for all of us at HEB.  For the short ten minutes she'll tolerate riding in the cart she spends it grabbing things off the shelves.  I have to double check the contents of the cart before I checkout.  Last week Ruby seemed to really want me to buy A LOT of Ramen.  Apparently she's ready to move into a dorm room, already.  Luckily she loves being in the baby carrier and I can finish the shopping that way.  It is so nice to be able to get our shopping done.  Since we've brought her home we have had to have  lots of things delivered or spend all day Saturday running errands.  I plan on enjoying this freedom for the next couple months.  Really is wonderful to be go places.  There is huge difference between having a healthy baby that you choose not to take out and one that absolutely can not go out. 

As for other happenings in the McKee-Starling household, our at Ella has been sick.  We took her in for a teeth leaning and she had an allergic reaction to some medicine.  She ended up on steroids with an IV.  We've also had to watch her pretty  closely since she got home.  Ruby has been really good at petting Ella softly while she is recovering.