Doctor Stats

Here are Joy's stats from her 15 month appointment back on December 13. Sorry so late...

Height - 31.5 inches 75th percentile
Weight - 22.5 lbs 40th percentile
Head Circumference - 19 inches 95th percentile

Christmas with the Krafves

We celebrated Christmas with the Krafves early this year since we will be spending the 24th and 25th here in Madison. We send a big thanks to my wonderful family for saving a day just for us this busy time of year. Joy enjoyed the time with family as well as all 4 dogs that belong to my sisters and their husbands. We shared a delicious meal together, opened a few gifts, and then played outside in all the snow that afternoon. Joy did not want to do anything outside but be pulled around in the sled, only by mom or dad. Needless to say, dad especially, was exhausted after this. You will find a video below of Joy helping Grandma in the house and sledding. The other video is of my crazy fun family 4-wheeling/ATVing in the snow. They were attempting to plow through a snow bank and drift to get to a field road. Both Bart and Jenni's attempts didn't work, but were pretty funny. Somehow, Christi, Aaron, and I ended up on clean-up crew. Enjoy!

Joy Plays in the snow

We got our first snowfall of the season today. We all got bundled up and went outside to play for awhile this morning. Joy did really good walking around in boots that were a little big and really stiff on top of being all bundled up. She looks like a little marshmallow. The highlight for her was dad pulling her on the sled.

Joy Plays Kinect

Well, Danny talked me into getting the Kinect for our Xbox. The plan was for him to sell the Xbox since we have a Wii. I really feel one game system is enough for a household. However, now that the Kinect came out (controller free game system), he had to get it. So, Danny was showing his dad how it worked earlier this week and Joy decided to try it out too. Dad is thankful Joy is too short for her movement to register into the game and mess up his stats. Lastly, I was getting Joy ready for bed when she pulled her usual stunt of running off once she is undressed. She loves to run around and away from us when she is undressed, and this night was no different. Thankfully, she at least has her diaper on in this video. Enjoy!

Joy Dances to Gummibear

Happy Belated Thanksgiving! We hope your Thanksgiving was relaxing and fun. We spent the holiday at the Krafve farm. We were indoors the whole visit because of the frigid temps and because I came down with a cold. We returned home Friday afternoon and Joy had a lot of energy after being strapped into a car seat for 3+ hours. We turned on the Gummibear song and away she went. We extend a special thanks to Danny's young cousin, Shae Baker, for introducing Joy to this song. She is a big fan as you will see.

The addition is complete!

Hi again. There isn't too much to update you regarding Joy. She continues to be a lot of fun! We are soaking in as much of her as we can these days.

We finished the addition and moved in about two weeks ago. We are enjoying the space tremendously. This means Joy also has her own big play space, which she is breaking in really well. The first day we opened the doors to the addition, Joy stood there and stared at the floor wondering if she could really enter. Once she realized she was able to enter, she ran in and out of the room and has barely stopped. Here is a before and two after pictures.


I also started working part-time this week. It has gone great!! I was really worried about Joy adjusting to taking naps in a new place. Of the last three days, she has gone right to sleep without a peep twice. I am caring for a 2 week old baby named Sarah. Her mom is still home on maternity leave. Joy and I spend 4.5 hours there 4 days a week so mom can do some things she needs/wants to do.

That covers things for now. We are looking forward to spending Thanksgiving at the Krafve farm. We also enjoyed visiting my sister and brother-in-law last weekend in Minneapolis, MN area for my cousins wedding. It was a busy, fast-paced weekend, but still fun, despite 8 inches of snow. We pray your Thanksgiving is very blessed.

Halloween 2010

Joy's first Halloween was a lot of fun. She was a lion since she has the cutest roar, which she changed to a quick roar the last few days - maybe because we've asked her to roar so much. :) The Halloween festivities started on Friday afternoon at Grandma Rainbow's house. She threw a party for all the kids in her childcare and Joy got to join in the fun. Saturday afternoon we went to our friend, Jane's, Halloween party at her house. The highlight was getting to roll in and kick around some leaves. Last night, Joy and I went to a 40th birthday party for a friend. There was another little friend there and both were dressed in their Halloween costumes. Then, finally today, we went trick-or-treating at some of the neighbors. She was a hit! Then, the best part was tonight after she was done with her bath. She escaped from dad when I was about to open the door to greet some trick-or-treaters. Thankfully, I caught her in time before she put on a full show for the kids. :)
Lastly, Danny is putting the finishing touches on the addition and we are getting carpet in tomorrow. We hope to move in at the end of the week!! Enjoy the video and pictures.

Joy playing in the leaves at Jane's party.

Joy having fun in the swing this morning.