Itsy Bitsy Ruby...

Another month has come and gone, amazingly enough! Miss Ruby is now 4 months old. She had her doctor's appointment last Tuesday (9/16), and weighed in at 10 pounds, 8.5 oz (5th percentile, again) and 24 inches long (50th percentile, again). To us she seems so old and much bigger, but really she's a dainty little girl! She started laughing about a month ago, and even started squealing last week. It is so dang cute!

Some cute poses of Miss Ruby, the first on August 17 (3 months), and the second on September 17 (4 months):

Ruby has found her feet/toes and absolutely LOVES them. So, she of course has to do gymnastic stretches whenever possible. Don't you wish we all stayed this flexible?? Crazy.

And some of the highlights of the Griffins' busy month...

August 22-24 ~ Ruby's first dog show! This is our favorite show, the Boston Terrier Specialty weekend at Marymoor Park in Redmond. Ruby got to meet all of our dog show friends, but unfortunately we had to leave early to get to Rob's ten-year high school reunion!

Labor Day Weekend ~ Crystal's Grandma and Grandpa Kelso celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary (actual anniversary: 8/23), so we got to hang out with family in Kennewick and Walla Walla for the weekend. Here's the happy couple and Ruby with her great-grandparents and her grandma.

Skylar's first day of school ~ Ruby and her Uncle Skylar did some (Wii) yoga together before Skylar headed off to his first day of Kindergarten. Gotta keep in shape, physically and mentally!

September 6 ~ Our baby birthing class had its reunion party so we could meet all the new babies. Here are the babies that were able to attend (from left to right): Tom, Tarran, Carter, Ruby, Josie-short for Josephine, Theo-short for Theodore. What sweeties! (And, ironically, the two oldest are the two smallest! Carter was very premie, and, well, we all know that Ruby is dainty!)

September 9 & 13 ~ Our great community group from church is going through the bitter-sweet experience of replicating. We are just too big! Half of us are moving to a new home, in Lynnwood. The Griffin family is staying at the current location, just 5 minutes from our house. Before the "split," though, we had one last photo shoot of (most of) the CG babies, as well as a fun kickball game. Just imagine how big our CG would have been without replicating and after the 4 pregnant ladies give birth (2 boys, 1 girl, and 1 unknown as of today, due at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009). From left to right, the current babes are: Grant, Asha, Ezra, James, Chloe and Brynn, and Ruby. Charlie is absent because his family has decided to move to a Lake City CG to be more missionally minded, Carter was in Idaho for the week, and I guess Caleb (Ezra's big brother) was too old at 4 years to be in the "baby" shot! :) We have made some great friends through this CG, and we have all promised to keep in touch and get together even after our "split."

Ruby's Bumbo seat (9/15): Ruby is finally big enough to stay up in her Bumbo seat! Although she has been able to hold her head up for quite a while, every time I would try to put her in the Bumbo seat this past month, she would slip right out of it! She didn't have enough weight to keep herself up! But, now that she's a big, grown-up, 4-month-old, she can do it.

Well, it only took me the entire weekend to get this post up, and now there's even more to write about (such as Rob's mom's wedding reception), but that will have to wait for another day. Until then!