playing with scarf and doggie bowl

Joanna likes to open up my drawers and make a mess. She found a drawer with all my scarves. She really like the purple one. It's soft and fuzzy. I actually was saving it for her. I wrapped it around her neck and her head... surprisingly she didn't take it off. But eventually, she did.

 She even likes to sit into Sandy's bowl. 

What a funny baby!

Hualapai mountains in Kingman, Arizona

The pastor and his wife took us up the Hualapai mountains to eat at a restaurant. We were able to see some elks from inside out (windows). Joanna enjoyed looking at them. I had to take pictures! 

Mountains in Kingman, Arizona?

(pictures are out of order, didn't have time to fix it... takes too long to do so)

I didn't know much about Arizona except that it's hot. But after staying here for almost a week, the weather was nice.  One day it was pretty cold during the day and we had to bundled up.  Usually Arizona gets cold overnights and warm during the days.  

I've noticed as we travel all the way to Kingman that there aren't much grass anywhere. Pretty much what you'll see in these photos is how it looks everywhere in Arizona.  Well.. basically almost everywhere.  It's pretty neat to see some area like a small section (public park with playgrounds, soccer field) have green grass! It looks like they embedded those there. There are several higher class homes with grass too and others places here and there but then all around them (outside their yard) it's not the same.  Hopefully I'll get a snapshot of something like that just to show you.

It's pretty neat to wake up in the morning and see the mountains outside.  Who would have thought Arizona have mountains?  There are some big cool rocks we've found and decided to take pictures there. It was cold and windy that day!

my baby up the RV steps

Joanna says what she hears

It is cute to hear my own baby girl says words we'll say.  Yesterday, Matt said that as he was reading her a story, he'll point at a picture of a baby and she'll try to mimic the word and says "ba ba" (for baby).  I didn't get to "hear" her say that.  I was getting ready for bed.  I'll have to emphasis this over and over but it's true...Joanna loves book!  She loves it when we read to her. She'll laugh whenever we try and mimicked animal sounds.  For instance, I'll say, "And the lion says...", she'll look at me knowing what will happen... I'll ROAR.  Most of the time she'll laugh but when she's tired she'll smile.  What's neat is that I'll catch her picking up a book and reading to herself but this time she'll ROAR herself (as I watch her from a distance) as she looks at the animal pictures.  I am not sure which animal she's doing that with but the point is she's coping!  Ain't that something?

Although, Matt caught her say "tak bah" as I was getting her bath ready... I was saying,"you ready to take a bath? and I'll look at her and said "take a bath". That's when she copy me but in her own brief words.  I was able to read her lips saying that again. It's so neat to see her language skills developing!

There are other words she'll say and that's "HI" and "BYE" but she'll wave at the same time saying those words.  I've noticed that every time Matt walks out the door she'll look at him and she'll wave at the same time saying "BYE BYYYYEEE".

Allergic reaction or heat rash?

Yesterday Joanna finally felt better. She has slept a lot. Her fever left. Praise the Lord! The only other concern was that she had little red bumps all over her.  It happened after lunch time.  I don't know if she's allergic to something. It could be anything.  She has rash on her face, neck, arm, and torso.  Poor little baby.  We think it's the food she ate but then what if it's something from the nursery or someone's perfume?  We don't know.  I am beginning to wonder if it's heat rash?  Those rash are still there on her as I look at her this morning. Anyway, we'll be paying attention for signs that may cause those rash.  We're thankful it isn't anything serious.

Kingman, Arizona

We made it to Kingman, Arizona yesterday afternoon. It's been a long drive from Cassville, Missouri to Kingman, Arizona!  We've had some problems along the way but God has been good to us!  Matt's truck broke down exactly when we arrived at the church!  How crazy is that?  We're hoping it isn't anything major. Matt thinks it is the batteries.  Hopefully, sometimes today he'll get a chance to buy some new ones to replace.  Our microwave stopped working but thankfully it has a 7 years warranty.  We'll get that taken care of.  Some wires were loose as we were traveling and it rubbed onto the tires and got damaged. It caused us to not have lights in some parts of our home but a good thing Matt knows how to fix it and he did!  Yeah!  Joanna was getting tired after the 13 hours being on the road.  We did stop at an RV place overnight and then continued on.  Joanna got sick.  She ended up having fever.  It's just been a crazy trip!  Please continue to pray for us as we are on the road.

We miss all the church families (what I meant is the church we've been to) in Missouri. They've been such a blessing to us and we pray that God continues to bless them.  I'm happy that we got to be a part in the ministry to help.

Right now as I am typing this, I'm just taking advantage of the opportunity to keep you up-to-date as always including our destination.  I'm actually trying to get settled in (happens every time we ended up some other place) and of course to take care of my sick baby.  As I open up my blinds,  I am looking outside the Arizona's mountains from my windows.  I can only see partial of them.  I'll be sure to post some pictures at a different location if I get a chance to take some.