florida, christmas and 17-18 months, oh my!

it has been a while since i posted, and i plan to make up for it. ruby and i spent a month in florida, with david meeting us there for the last 2 weeks. going somewhere warm in december is becoming a tradition which i call the "thaw out" and this year it was. the weather in florida was mostly in the 70s, with a few days in the 80s and even fewer in the 60s. damn, it felt good, even though it took ruby a while to get used to the heat (she was happy to run around in a diaper as much as possible).

we stayed with my parents and used that as a base to visit friends and family. with the holidays and sicknesses, we didn't get to see as many people as we had hoped. we did get to spend time with my friend's 3 month old girl which was very important for us (ruby loves babies), we went to Miami for a few days, and then attended a wedding on New Year's. Christmas was spent at my parent's with friends and family in attendance. it was a whirlwind, and here i was thinking that 1 month would be enough time! ha!

we have now been home a little over a month and things have been very good. it seems that ruby has decided to learn to talk, ALOT, and wants to know every word for every thing! her favorite books right now are ABC books, or Picture Dictionaries so that she can learn as many new words as possible. problem is that most of the words sound incredibly similar to the untrained ear, or she forgets the word and simply calls it "da-da" until she is reminded what it actually is named. She says such complex things as 'purple', 'outside' and 'stroller' but doesn't know how to say easy things like 'poo'. it is a riot!

in other news, I am pregnant with our second (and last) baby! I am due the end of June and so far things are going really well. We hope to find out the sex this week, although Ruby says it will be a boy. Ruby is very excited about being an older sister and gives the baby kisses all the time. We just hope she is this happy when reality strikes!