Snuffy Dozes and Big Moves

This week Ruby has suffered from her first stuffy nose--which is quite annoying to her and quite funny to us! Periodically, especially when she's eating, she gets this funny face where she wrinkles up her nose and snuffles in and out trying to clear a passage. It hasn't really been running at all, just a bit congested. I don't think that she even notices it until she's trying to breathe through her nose. Anyway, it's really cute!


Ruby has also gotten much more mobile. She is standing on her own a lot now and is even starting to unlock her knees a bit to take tiny steps in one direction or another. Mostly she still just reaches as far as she can with her arms until she gets off balance and tumbles over--then we hear the screams! Her BIG milestone this week has been pulling herself up from the floor to standing with the help of the coffeetable. She seems to be losing intrest in trying to get places with her pseudo-crawl... I think that she thinks she's ready to just take off walking! I hope it isn't too soon though! We are NOT ready for her to be toddling around the house.



Because of all the pulling up and standing that she's been doing we finally had to break down and move her crib down to the lower setting. It's only about 6-8" off the ground so it's really a pain to get her in and out of it without straining your back, but it definitely puts my mind at ease that she won't be throwing herself out of the crib any time soon!