13 months of busyness

What Joy is doing 

• Joy is very talkative and jabbers all day long. Now when I tell her "no" or "not for Joy" she starts to jabber on and on. I bet she is telling me all the reasons why it is a good idea to touch the electrical outlet or eat dog food.
  
  • Joy's word list 
  •  "dadda" now has become "daddy". 
  • "Rudy" and "baby" sound very similar to daddy :-)

•  Joy caught Brad's cough, cold and fever a couple weeks ago. I guess her touching everything in sight, and crawling in gross places is catching up with her!  

Joy found a box of straws and loves playing with them!

• Total tooth count: Still 5

•  Crawls so fast I can barely keep up with her.
•  She is getting more interested in walking behind toys that move. She is also standing for short periods without any assistance. 

Eats

• Nursing: Joy nurses before bed but once we are back from our spring break trip to Sri Lanka she will be fully weaned.
• Solid food: Joy eats as much as me (well almost!) 
• Loves: Pretty much all food. The past month she has had some fun food experiences cucumber sushi (including the sea weed), Korean BBQ (she loves meat), chicken noodle soup (homemade Mennonite recipe!), bok choy/fruit smoothies, 
• Verdict is still out on: black beans, chick peas
• Introducing this week: trying to get her to like black beans and/or chick peas (maybe hummus?)
• Joy can hold the sippy cup and has for a while now. She doesn't really like plain cow milk but loves yogurt/smoothies and cream of wheat /oatmeal made with milk, so slowly we will get there.

Sleeps:

•  Night time: She still sleeps for 11  hours, 7pm to 6am. Although when she was sick she was so tired she was going to bed at 6:30am and was waking up at 5:30am...YIKES. 
• Naps: Joy is taking 2 naps a day, 8:30/9am and 12:30/1pm (one hour each). Her afternoon naps are going to about 1.5/2 hours, which are GREAT!

Weighs:19Lbs+ (we don't have a scale so I can't be accurate)

Likes:

*Reading: However, she will not let us pick out the books (except when Brad reads to her before bed). The girl has opinions.

 

 *I"m so thankful she likes the stroller. Carrying her in the Ergo is getting more challenging with my growing bump. I have to still strap her in with the Ergo when she is on the bus because she wants to get off my lap the whole time. 

* Her baby doll and other babies.  If I ask her to go and find her baby, she will find it....and then bash it on the head (it is how she shows she likes you..yikes).

Dislikes: Joy dislikes being alone. She had her first two timeouts this month and disliked her 30 seconds of being alone in the hallway strapped to her high chair. The girl needs boundaries set so might as well start now! We have a lot of hard work ahead of us.

Favorite event: Joy is looking forward to her first trip to Ocean Park (amusement park/zoo) on Tuesday and Sri Lanka next week!