So my original plan was to update this on most of the bigger Holidays, but that obviously didn't happen. Oops. This takes place one year after the first part. This is short and fluffy. Enjoy and hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas.

Joy to the World

"Good morning!" Helga Shortman greeted as she walked into her daughter's nursery. The nearly six month old was laying on her back in her crib, smiling as she babbled incoherently. Helga scooped her up into her arms, placing a kiss on her forehead. "Merry Christmas Joy." She smiled down at her daughter, who immediately snuggled into Helga's arms.

Joy Geraldine Shortman who was born on the Fourth of July. It was something Helga, Arnold, and Arnold's parents would be joking about years to come. Arnold was born in the jungle during the middle of a volcano eruption and his daughter was born during fireworks. It was actually kind of perfect. The fact she had green eyes just like her daddy made things even better.

"Let's change your diaper really quick so we can join Daddy downstairs for breakfast." She gently placed Joy down onto her changing table and began changing the baby's diaper. "Then we can open presents. Aren't you excited for your first Christmas?" She tickled Joy's tummy, "Of course you are, because you know exactly what's going on, don't you?" Helga rolled the wet diaper up before throwing it into the diaper genie. She wiped her hands off with a baby wipe before picking Joy up and carrying her downstairs.

"Good morning Daddy. Merry Christmas!" Helga spoke for Joy as she carried the baby into the kitchen. Arnold had just started putting together breakfast, French toast and bacon, for Helga and himself. "Can you hold her a second? I need to wash my hands."

"Of course." Arnold gladly took Joy out of his wife's arms. "Somebody looks like she's a good mood this morning. We get to check to see if Santa came after breakfast."

"Give her back." Helga held out her arms, "I want to feed her before you finish breakfast."

Forty five minutes later the family of three walked into the living room. Arnold sat down on the floor in front the couch, Joy nestled onto his lap as Helga received their stockings. They would just open those for now and wait for the rest until Miles, Stella, Bob, Miriam, and Olga came in a couple of hours. Olga was happily single. She had a couple long term relationships that didn't pan out to anything, which devastated Olga at the time, but had recently decided to focus on herself. Helga could tell Olga had never been happier.

"Joy do you want to open your present from Santa first?" Helga asked as she sat down next to her husband and daughter.

Joy drooled in response.

"I'll take that as a yes." Helga pulled the first item out of Joy's stocking, a pink and grey stuffed owl, which matched the color theme of her nursery. Joy squealed in delight and reached toward the stuffed animal. "Here you go baby." Helga laughed when Joy tried to stick one of the owl's wings in her mouth, "Just wait. I think you're going to like your next present from Santa better for that." She pulled out a teething ring that she made sure she washed the night before. "Here." She took the owl from her and handed her the teething ring instead. Just as expected it went right into Joy's mouth.

"I think its Mommy's turn to open a present now." Arnold nudged Helga lightly, gesturing to her stocking that he filled the night before.

"Hmm…I wonder what Santa got me." Helga pulled out a small box from her stocking and quickly ripped the paper off. Judging by the box it was obviously some kind of jewelry. Helga grinned, Arnold was really good at picking out jewelry for her. She lifted the box's lid to reveal a dainty silver necklace. It had a silver bar charm with Joy's named etched onto it, a small ruby gemstone, Joy's birthstone was placed under her name. "Oh…Arnold. I love it. It's perfect." She removed it from the box, and put it on. She kissed Arnold on the lips, "Thank you."

"I'm glad you like it." Arnold smiled, "The jeweler told me if we ever have any more children we can add more bars."

Helga resisted the urge to roll her eyes, ever since Joy was about a month old he had been hinting he wanted another baby. She wanted to wait until Joy was at least a year before they even thought about trying for another. Instead of rolling her eyes she rested her head on Arnold's shoulder as she smoothed out some of Joy's blonde hair. "We can start talking about that in about six months."

Arnold wrapped an arm around Helga, holding her close. "I can't get over how lucky I am. I have Joy…And you. You have always me Christmas for me. First you reunite Mister Hyunh with Mai. Then, you agreed to marry me…Now you gave me Joy. I don't think I can ever vocalize how much you mean to me and how much I love you."

"I love you too." She snuggled further into his side. "Just please don't call me your Christmas Angel again."

He laughed, "Fine, I won't call you that anymore. Finish opening your stocking."

"Okay." Helga pulled out another small box, which was about the size of a softball, this time she knew it wasn't jewelry. She opened the package to find an angel ornament. Etched on the base were the words, 'Helga, My Christmas Angel'

"I told you I wouldn't call you that anymore, now I don't have to." Arnold grinned. "Just remember to watch your mouth, there is a child in the room." He gestured towards Joy, who was still happily chewing on her teething ring.

"I'm not saying a word, frankly I'm surprised it took you this long to get me something like this." Helga pulled herself up from the floor and hung the angel ornament front and center of the tree. "Okay, Football Head. It's your turn to open your stocking."

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I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday, and for those of you who don't celebrate Christmas I hope you enjoyed your day as well. My real life imitated this story a little bit last night. My sister announced that she is pregnant!