Week 52

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New things: Tooth #’s 13 and 14 arrived this week!

Just as Ruth started putting her finger up her nose not too long ago, she started putting her finger in her ear this week. Again, funny how they learn this at such a young age.

Ruth can turn herself around really well…meaning if she’s walking around, she can easily reposition herself in the opposite direction without having to try hard or stop to think about it or balance.

Ruth has started making a new squealing/shrieking noise. It’s not a bad noise; it just seems to be a new noise she discovered how to make and has fun making it…especially when she gets attention after making it.

Fun things: O’s side of the family was here this week. First O’s mom, sister, aunt, and cousin arrived mid week, and then O’s dad, brother, and other sister arrived on Saturday. Tom’s parents arrived on Sunday (Ruth’s 1^st b-day party was on Sunday).

Ruth got to feed goats for the 1^st time! She seemed to enjoy it!

Ruth also got a balloon at one of the restaurants we went to. She enjoyed picking it out!! Can’t go wrong with balloons!

We had fun while family was here. We went to a cheese store, went shopping and out to eat (went to one of my dad’s new local favorites and tried out a new supper club as well), got ice cream, rented movies, hung out at home, toured Tom’s farm, went to the local goat farm and apple orchard, talked, cooked, and got ready for Ruth’s party. My aunt and cousin also joined Tom for basketball at our local high school, and my sister went to watch me at Zumba class.

Everyone (including myself as I had never had a full tour) really enjoyed the tour of one of Tom’s farms. We all asked lots of questions and learned LOTS!! We went on Saturday once the rest of my family arrived.

My aunt and cousin brought a treat bag along with them for Ruth. It had all sorts of fun things including a couple new cups, granola bars, a toothbrush, oatmeal, goldfish, veggie/fruit pouches, etc. She LOVED it! It was fun to watch her get excited about everything.

After Ruth’s birthday party, my family headed home, and we went with Tom’s parents to watch his farms harvest and pack corn silage. We did this at one of the farms, and we also tracked down a chopper out in a muddle field:). We grabbed some Subway for dinner before heading home.

Ruth loves: Sunflower seeds. My mom introduced them to her. She can’t get enough of them.

Still loves peanut butter and trying on others’ shoes.

We have a couple of small round muti-colored striped magnets on the fridge (among other magnets), and for some reason, Ruth LOVES these little magnets. She found them quite entertaining this week and really enjoyed playing with them.

Ruth and I took our van into the shop this week to get worked on, and Ruth really enjoyed all of the taxidermy animals (especially the moose and deer) hanging up on the walls. She was really entertained by them.

Sleep: The night before Ruth’s party (when we had 7 other people sleeping at our place), Ruth really struggled with sleep during the night. She woke up in the middle of the night, and since we had people sleeping in basically every room of our apartment, we were confined to our bedroom. We tried all sorts of things. She ended up throwing up a few times…I had to change clothes and the sheets. We ended up deciding to take her for a drive so as to not keep everyone else up and to hopefully get her back to sleep. We drove to Tom’s farms and drove around. She fell asleep. At one of the farms we parked so that Tom could work on packing corn silage (in a HUGE tractor) while Ruth and I slept in the van. We did this for 3 or so hours. It was fun, adventuresome, tiresome, and random all at the same time. It made for a funny story and some fun birthday memories afterward, though. I slept pretty well in the van, and Tom had fun driving the tractor. Thankfully, he was able to get a nap in that morning before Ruth’s party.

Tom and I: Not much to report, here, I guess. I worked on getting things ready for Ruth’s party (and had been for awhile; wanted to have most of it done before family arrived). It’s always so nice to see Ruth with family and to have extra hands to help carry her, play with her, get her in and out of her car seat, etc. :). I had fun staying up one night to watch “Moms’ Night Out” with my aunt and cousin.

Tom enjoyed having my aunt and cousin join him for basketball, giving everyone a tour of one the farms and is really enjoying corn silage season...can you tell...especially when he gets to help out or watch!

Thank you, Lord, for: That both sides of the family could be here for Ruth’s birthday! It was soooooooooo special! We’re so grateful that all of them got to join us, as well as, some of our close friends from here in WI!