What a Girl!

The past couple of days with Joy have been pretty amazing. We have spent a lot of time inside playing and have ventured outside to enjoy some sunny afternoons. We even took our first grocery shopping trip to Fred Meyer. She enjoyed the sights and pointed to just about everything with a huge smile (even the "larger" people on the motorized "disabled" scooters. Oh ma'am, honestly, she points and smiles at everything.) And no people of Klamath Falls, she's not from Haiti... Joy loves the grass and to stand on the scooter while dad pushes it up and down the sidewalk (Joy, get out of the street!). Her bigger sisters absolutely adore her and Matty has really taken on a nurturing "little" mama role and wants to help whenever she can with whatever it is. Katie loves the new role of big sister and loves to play dolls with her. Joy also has a funny way of adding laughter to times when we didn't think we could. Shawna got sick yesterday afternoon and Joy somehow knew Shawna felt bad and came up to her and slowly put her cheek to Shawna's and gave her a hug. And when I was sitting on the couch in front of my laptop computer frustrated at some college stuff, I found a toy bottle being pushed into my mouth and I heard Joy going "Num, num." I looked at her to see a huge smile on her face as she was trying to nurse me back to laughter. It's times like those and about a million other things that make us love her more and more as time goes on. She has the cutest smile and most infectious laugh, and of course, that heart of gold.

So as you can tell she is doing fine, better than we could have ever imagined a week ago. She is taking to or "American" food extremely well and loves chicken enchiladas (thank you Murphy family for dinner last night!). This morning it's Daddy's Pancake Espeseeal.

Here's some random pics from the past couple of days.

Oh, and just for notes, if you're adopting a child internationally, you might want to introduce a bubble bath by starting with very few bubbles. Ask Joy about that.