Joy is 22 months

 What Joy is doing 

• Joy is consistently cracking us up with the funny things she says or going to time out for disobeying. We are in the throws of the highs and lows of toddler-hood! 
• Says love you....which melts your heart!(Daddy was actually the first person to get an unasked for I love you)
• likes to drink out of a cup with  no lid  
• She says "goodbye" or "see ya" to bear when we leave him at home.

• Total teeth: 16! i teeth are in....now on to the 2 year old molars. Does this ever end??
  
  

What Joy is saying: Joy is a talker and gets frustrated if we can't figure out what she is trying to communicate

• I dunoo
• Pood "spoon"
• Waloo "water. "
• Ammo "oatmeal"
• Rabbip "rabbit"
• shaushaa "sausage"
• Chilly-willy when she is cold and then says cozy-willy when she is warm! ha
• When you ask her where Joy is she points to herself and says "right here" 
• She will also randomly say "Happiness...Cocos" which is the name of her favorite restaurant (also ours!)
• Our other favorite: she will walk around saying "mommy happy...Joy listens" which is true, mommy is happy when Joy listens! 

 Eats: 

• Loves: Our girl loves to eat: Her favorites are: eggs with spinach, homemade chicken noodle soup, pumpkin soup and shaushaa (sausage). The girl is a carnivore! 
• Dairy Free: We are going to see if she still has this issue during Christmas break. 
• Still gives us trouble: when she eats too much fruit or nuts!

Sleeps:

•  Night time: 7pm-between 6-7am. On the weekend she sleeps until 7 and during the week she is up at 6.....no one likes daddy's alarm!
• Naps: One afternoon nap (2 hours-if I'm lucky 2.5 hours). 

Likes:

* Loves to sing "Frosty the Snow man" and play with her "new toy" aka the nativity set!

* Books...and I am so thankful for a library that we can go to and get new books...or we would be going crazy reading the same one over and over.

*Swings

* Loves to read her Bible and pray....

Is learning.....
* to hand us things instead of chuck them in our direction (especially BOOKS!)
*to say sorry when she hits her friends or brother

Dislikes: Being left in mom's group with the babysitters....something we are going to work on after Christmas break. She hated her first time with the stomach flu...oh wait, she was a trooper...I hated it! Cleaning up toddler barf has got to be one of the grossest things in the world. She loved getting to watch Curious George on YouTube(since she never gets to watch tv) and drinking "special drink" Gatorade (since she never gets anything but water and almond milk)

Favorite event: Going to Ocean Park and seeing the pandas. We pray for pandas each night now (along with crocodiles, pigeons, Simon, rocks, her friends....got to love the free flow thought pattern of a toddler)