Her hair colour is still the subject of some debate, however I suspect it gets most of its red-orange colour from natural fruit dyes.
...but Ruth enjoyed playing in the warm rockpools the most.
We look forward to seeing you at Christmas!
much love,
Brendan
Here is little one at our old home looking like she's ready for the big move (but in reality still being several weeks away from being able to crawl)
And here she is playing a duet with Cherie at the new house. Cherie has a knack of planning her holidays with us when we are moving home i.e. she plans them months before we even know that we're moving.
The new place has an interesting architectural feature in the orange bottle glass doors. They are very attractive in the afternoon light but mainly seem designed to screen views of the backyard and make the dining area dark.
Here we are on back deck with fledgling vegie patch beyond.
Here is our inaugral lunch on the deck with Neil, Ian, Heather, Leslie and Sue.
And here you can see little one's two teeth.
And since this photo was taken, she really is moving everywhere, man.
much love,
Brendan
Firstly, the skiing: we only had one day of it, and as you can see in the photo above there was only a shallow cover. Ruth slept contentedly in the backpack for most of the time, but woke up to play at lunchtime.
Lunchtime after a walk. You can (kind of) see the snow on hotham in the background.
Zac and Jack are pretty fast quadrapeds as is another of Ruth's cousins, Momo.
I feel I need to explain that Ruth only gapes like a stunned mullet when the camera comes out. OK, perhaps not only when the camera comes out - but it is certainly very hard to take a photo of her wearing any another expression! To illustrate the point, here Ruth is with Joseph, the other cousin she has been spending time with lately.
much love,
And what does Ruth like to play with and eat when she is in the basket?
much love,
Today after lunch at Sean and Sandra's place, Ruth demonstrated to her hosts how to sit up without assistance. I suspect that all the playing with new toys meant she was too preoccupied to remember to fall over.
It was a lovely sunny day, so we also walked up the hill behind their house. As you can see, Jack and Sam insisted on equal treatment to Ruth and so they were carried the entire way up to the top. (In their dreams.)
How many months do you think it will be before Ruth has more teeth than Sam?
Here Ruth is sitting in the drivers seat of Colin's car and happily listening to the live broadcast of the Saints beating Collingwood. Colin's happiness must've been infectious - or perhaps barracking for the Saints is genetic?
In the meantime, we are asking Ruth to conserve her cuteness until the visit of the other grand parents.
Ruth is beginning to notice more of the world around her as she travels in her little cocoon.
And here Little One is without a couple of the outer layers.
Finally, we had been told that by leaving old stiff nappies hanging out on the line overnight, they would become softened by the cool night air. But look what happened!
They were stiff as boards at 9.30am the following morning!