Joy isn 19 months!

What Joy is doing 

• Joy loves to pretend to feed all her animals when she eats 
• Has definite oppinons about what she should wear and eat
• She can clean up toys
• She likes to recite words she has learned and doesn't stop saying the word until you repeat it or make sure you understand what she is saying. 
• More and more outgoing/extrovert each day

• Total teeth: 12 (still working on "i" teeth, one is almost through, four more to go! Yikes these have taken a long time to come in)
  
  
  

What Joy is saying: Joy is a chatterbox! Her record is 30 minutes of straight talking. One our way home from dinner when Grandma Lorna was here she talked the whole way telling me story after story.

It is too hard to keep track of all the words that Joy is saying, every day she adds a new word. Some of our favorite words she says right now are (she has a little speech impediment so they come out really cute!)
*Cat, monkey, rabbip (rabbit)
*Sima (Simon)
* knock it off Rudy
* Doy (Joy :-)

 Eats: 

• Loves: Our girl loves to eat, and has learned that some food is spicy, and she doesn't like it when it is spicy! 
• Dairy Free:  Sometimes I feel sad that Joy can't have dairy as it is one of my favorite food groups. Oh well!
• Still gives us trouble: Carrots and bananas are back on the diet if she eats them in moderation. 

Sleeps:

•  Night time: 7pm-between 6-6:45am
• Naps: One afternoon nap (2 hours)** The last two days she has cried going down for her nap (something she NEVER does) and has only slept an hour and a half...lets hope this isn't a trend.

Weighs:About 23 lbs

Likes:

*Swings

*Water/the pool

*Asking if there will be boys at the event we are going to (a bit early for being boy crazy I think!)
* Going to the play room during mom's group instead of being with me...YAY
*Checking if Simon's diaper has poop in it
* Covering her face with stickers (A great distraction that Grandma Lorna thought of as we waited for food one night!)

*Going to the aquarium aka Fish restaurant in Sai Kung

*Going to the liboy "library" 

Is learning.....
* to listen to mommy and daddy, being nice and gentle with baby brother. We fear the terrible twos are upon us and she is only 19 months....pray for us!
* to share mommy with Simon

Dislikes: When mommy is nursing Simon (which is all the time!), not getting her own way....and walking up the stairs back to our house (which is hard because I am not suppose to carry her up the stairs for another week and a half).

Favorite event:  Having both Grandmas in Hong Kong to visit! The Monday after Grandma Lorna left and daddy was back at work was a reality check (a pretty bad day!) But thankfully the last two days have had minimal time outs, crying outbursts and hitting little brother.