rise and shine! 7:30am and SO ready to get this party started!!
breakfast with puppy. english muffin with peanut butter, banana, blueberries and yogurt. mmmmm.
64 degree cold front!! we think we'll spend the morning @townlake!!
just frollicking about town with pups
top change time. i knew 60 degree weather was going to be short lived
snacking with mama @ auditorium shores
now down to the trail to watch all the runners and dogs go by!!
back home with time to kill before lunch...i think we'll take pups on a walk through the dorm!
lunching!
napping
awake and, of course, already managed to put on a pair of daddy's "no show" socks which are clearly knee highs!
uncle clutch is spending the night-- here we are on a walk to pick up dad from a consulting appointment at the business school.
SO happy to see dadda!!!
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home for bathtime. not sure what got into this girl during bathtime. you'd think i spiked her drink or something. seriously, at one point she starts speakng chinese.
earlier today-- we got a shipment of fall clothes in the mail and joy thought it would be funny to walk around with her beanie over her eyes....
and then decided that it would be a brilliant idea to try to eat dinner in a similar fashion.
she doesn't miss a beat. everything i do, even if just once. she remembers and repeats.
we showered together the other day and i had to give her a razorless razor so she could "shave too". and now at every bath, she pretends to shave her legs.
taking a phone call. a serious one, clearly.
putting some got-to-be-glued in her and babies hair like daddy
putting on mommies shoes.
dads under armour coupling as a scarf and a belly band of sorts.
this girl is a riot. she could play dress up all day long. not only herself, but she likes to dress mommy too. when she can tell we're getting ready to go somewhere she goes and gets my shoes and starts putting them on my feet. with such persistance too. she seriously starts picking up my foot and trying to cram it into the shoe. this morning she brought me my sandals and i said "joy, i'm not wearing sandals today i'm wearing my running shoes". one minute later she's pacing down the hall with my running shoes in hand. what?! how does she know this stuff? always amazed.
1. walking piper before breakfast and before dinner.
2. laundry.
3. and picking up all her toys.
this video is an attempt for joy to overcome her fear of the vacuum cleaner. i figured if she got right down there with it and realized it wasn't going to eat her, she'd be cool. mission accomplished!
my most favorite things that she's doing right now-
attempting to sing. so sweet.
she's fallen in love with "puppy" her little stuffed animal friend. she loves puppy so much that I'VE fallen in love with puppy. just seeing how happy this little guy makes her makes me so so happy. she will carry him around the house, is constantly giving him hugs and kisses, reads him books, tries to give him milk and food. it is the cutest!
she insist on feeding herself from a spoon. it's kind of annoying because it turns what should take 15 minutes into 45. no joke. she will put black bean by black bean, rice grain by rice grain on her spoon and then put in into her mouth. and don't even think about taking that spoon away and trying to help her. she's a big girl now...and she can do this ALL by herself.
THE BEST is giving her commands and watching her follow them through. i am seriously amazed at all the things she knows. i had no idea-- until one day, she just started doing absolutely everything i asked. for example "joybird, go get puppy (i think he's in your room) and get your milk and come sit in your big girl chair." she walks in her room, comes out with puppy, grabs her milk, and sits in her chair. OH MY GOSH. how do they know all of this?!?!?!!?!?
or "joybird, do you want to go take piper potty outside? we need to put on your shoes!" grabs her shoes, grabs pipers leash... unbelievable.
it is so motivating to me to want to teach her more and more and more...just watching her soak up this world (and at such a fast pace) is the most fascinating thing! it's so rewarding as a parent to see that all the things that you have been saying to her for months has actually sunk in and she gets it. oooh i love it!
if you've noticed that my blogging has fallen to the wayside, i apologize. i am the mother of one active little lady. from the time she wakes until it’s time for bed—it’s go time.
A few things worth noting about this little bird we call joy.
She’s a hugger. And she’s a kisser. and her constant affection gets me like nothing else in this world. She leans in slowly with this contagious little grin and then gently touches her lips next to yours. She kisses piper on the lips, her stuffed animals on the lips, every animal and character on every page of her books on the lips, and anyone else who wants one. She seriously loves everyone.
She has such determination, and focuses on big girl tasks and will not stop until she’s accomplished them. It’s unreal. She will sit for 10 sometimes 20 minutes trying to figure something out. For a while it was how to put on her pants but it ranges from putting on shoes, putting on a top, fitting puzzle pieces into their proper spots, opening something, unzipping her outfits, the list goes on. She will stop at nothing.
She’s recently started reading books to herself. She sits there and “reads”. I believe she thinks she’s talking but it sounds a bit more like “took-a-took-a-took-a-took-a” and then an occasional daddadda. And then a whole lot of laughter. And then she looks to me like “are you listening to my story?”
She’s loves to take my cell-phone and put it to her ear and in this high-pitched voice says “hi”. I think she’s mocking me. It’s quite hilarious.
she loves wearing beads. every morning she goes immediately to her necklaces and places them one by one around her neck. they typically remain on for the rest of the day.
one of trey and I's favorite things that she does right now is, any time either of us laugh she bursts out into this huge high-pitched laughter. it is HILARIOUS every time. trey says she just has to be in on the joke and in on the convo. i'm going to need to get this on video because it is priceless and i don't want to every forget it! so presh. **** okay, kind of got it on video....
She loves to play the” where is your…” game. And is so proud everytime she gets it right. And when I ask her something that she’s not quite sure of, she, without fail, points to her hair with this questioned look on her face as to say “maybe that’s up here where I can’t see it??” she currently knows, hair (loves her hair), nose, toes, feet, belly button, tummy, mouth, tongue (loves when we ask where her tongue is!), ears, knees, fingers, hands, mommy’s belly button. She loves to randomly pull our house guests shirts up to make sure they all have belly button’s too. It’s proven to be quite awkward in some situations. But, so far, everyone’s got one. ;)
The girl eats. And she’ll eat anything. There’s never been one thing that we’ve put in her mouth that she hasn’t enjoyed. We’ll pray this continues.
She is extremely easy going and actually never gets upset. I can’t think of anything that makes her cry. I guess she’s just pretty content and happy to be alive. As her father is known for saying “it’s a great day to be alive, isn’t it?!” she seriously follows that motto and enjoys every minute of every day.
She’s the joy-bird. And we love her for all these reasons and one million more!!
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