Time for Ruby’s annual birthday interview. Same questions, new kid every year. :)
Author: Carrie
The Nightmare Before Ruby’s Birthday
With Ruby’s birthday only being two days after Halloween, I’ve always worried about lumping them together because it just didn’t seem fair. Turns out, Mom was completely WRONG on this one! Ruby absolutely adores Halloween and was thrilled that it fell on a weekend this year so that she could have a Halloween birthday party! We’ve always had a crew to trick-or-treat with, so we just invited folks over for a little extra fun before hitting the neighborhood.
One of her very favorite movies is The Nightmare Before Christmas, so we did our best to make the celebration worthy of an event in Halloween Town. She was pretty happy.
Of course, Daddy had to be Jack…
My last minute costume was dressing up as Shock, one of the troublemaker kids in the movie who kidnaps “Sandy Claws”. She dresses like a witch but wears a big, oversized green mask. Props to Ed for constructing this last minute for me! (And how great did Daddy pull off Sally‘s awesome makeup?!?)
Matchy-machy Tim-Butron-esque tights. :)
Ed went all out and decided an Oogie Boogie piñata needed to be made. He did the whole thing … paper mache and all. I didn’t know how he’d pull it off, but he sure did — it turned out incredible!
A few pics from the celebration:
And finally, the Annual Halloween photo — AKA, the Orange Couch Session!
Trick or Treating in the neighborhood
Ruby update
This has been one epic summer. Ruby went back to school yesterday and it’s just amazing to see how much she’s grown. When she started Petite Montessori, she was just 2 yrs (and 10 mos) old. Now, she’s almost 5!
She certainly turned into quite a fish over the summer as well. She has always loved the water, but now she is swimming halfway across the big pool and turning to the side to breathe! She even got brave and ran off the diving board without a lifejacket at swim lessons this summer! She is truly oozing with confidence when it comes to the pool.
She’s also made some significant strides with her violin. She has been working on “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Hot Cross Buns”. She’s getting there, but the most impressive thing to me is that she is completely reading music now. Its amazing to see … we’re just so proud of the drive she has to learn this and how dedicated she is with practicing!
She likes eating cucumbers now, her favorite place to go is the beach, and she’s officially obsessed with Star Wars. She’s rivaling her dad when it comes to trivia … and she’s even building a reputation amongst her friends …
Hangin’ at the beach with daddy.
It’s been a fun summer and we’re sure it will be a great year for this spunky little girl we call our daughter. She’ll be 5 in less than two months!
Proof
Our girl is changing – and it hit like a ton of bricks upon seeing this photo today.
(She’s only 4.5, even if she looks 14 in this pic.)
KimTrippin: Pacific NorthWest — Day 20 (The Road Home)
And that’s a wrap.
20 days. 4129.6 total miles. 96 hrs., 33 mins. total travel time.
We love you, Pacific Northwest.
To see all the photos on Instagram with #kimtrippinPacNW, click here.
We made one final kitschy stop at Pancake Circus in Sacramento before heading on the final leg of our (almost) 3-week tour. We can’t ever pass up a chance to marvel at some mid-century awesomeness! We’re glad we went, but um … the food was pretty terrible.
Now we’re back and we’re still marveling over all the places we’ve been! Trying to create a map showing all our stops … stay tuned.