Big Sister!

Saturday Jan. 2, 2010

There is nothing better in the world than a Big Sister to play with!

Jie-jie finally came today and the world is a better place! Joy got to play with Courtney's hair, her jewelry and her clothes. They giggled over dolls and coloring books. Courtney even taught Joy her favorite phrases, "Oh, my goodness" and the famous sigh. Joy was in heaven!

That was not what I expected considering how Joy reacted when Courtney and Chris came in the door! Courtney looked lovely, in a black coat and black boots with her hair pulled up on top a little bit. And big earrings. Joy was scared of her! She kept telling me that wasn't jie-jie. We got a picture and put it up next to Courtney's face and Joy still shook her head, no. It was pretty funny, except that she was distressed about it.

It didn't take that long, and they were BFF!!

Here are some pictures from our Christmas. Joy didn't really understand Santa, or why there were presents for her that weren't wrapped. But she played with them all the same. (A note to self - next year, check to make sure the toy doesn't need aseembling before Santa leaves it!) She got the hang of our system pretty quickly though. Each person gets a present and we all watch them open it before we go to the next person. After about 3 presents, she wanted to be in charge of who got what present. She was very good and didn't ask for a present, but she wanted to know which packages were for her! She also wanted to hand them out.

There were lots of giggles and everyone had a good time!

Here are some pictures.