This is how I described Joy's recent progress to a friend:
sitting up, loves to eat paper and play with her rattles. She's started crawling backwards, gets frustrated because she knows she's supposed to be going forward :)

Today has been a busy day already, and it's not even 8 a.m. Tim has an in and out meeting in AZ today, so we got him to the airport in record time (10 minutes there and back). Got back home at 5:40 a.m. and I was all set to go back to sleep. Not so the little ones.

Josh had his morning chocolate (forgot to clear his cup again ....) and Joy just wasn't interested in going back to sleep. Guess who got to stay up with them? :) After chocolate Josh wanted to play Lego Stunt Rally. We had the time, and he wanted me to play with him. I won two or three races. We're still working on the last race of the desert area. That Baron Flambo track is hard!

Joy finally wanted to eat and go back to sleep. Now .. she's waking up. And I have to decide if I am going in to Josh's school. I want to take some pictures of the kids for Art Lit. Them actually doing the work. I better decide soon. School starts soon!

It's been one busy week! And it's not over yet! I did some volunteering at the school and by lunch time I realized that Joy is getting pretty heavy. I had her in the backpack position in the Snugli(TM).

Josh asked if I could stay all day. Either he wanted me to or he wanted a ride home. Probably a ride home. If nothing else comes up, I might volunteer two or three mornings a week. That class was crazy! Lots of kids, all at different levels. I think it would make more sense to break kids up into what levels they are instead of by age. Or even by levels and learning styles. That would make a little more sense than giving a teacher a bunch of kids and making her sort out where they are academically to tailor as much as possible the curriculum for them.

Time to catch some z's and/or stare at Joy ... the baby who never naps. At least she is almost sleeping all the way through the night.

Joy is simply amazing. She sat through Art Lit and even put herself to sleep. And this morning/afternoon (about 12:00). I put her on her new playmat, on her back, we had hung her Pooh toys from he other playmat on it. She reached for and grabbed, and then pulled off her Piglet!. She the proceeded to roll over and crawl/scoot off the mat. She always does that when I am not looking :( (I was in the computer room blogging). Now she's on the floor next to me gnawing on a piece of paper. She loves crumpling paper. ... and then chewing on it. Ah well.

Coffee date, time to change baby and head back out the door.