14 Reasons (even though there are actually 1400!) We Heart
Little Leighton!
TLC/Mama’s Seven:
- Her new trick: walking backwards!
- If she wakes up in the middle of the night, she’ll look up at the ceiling and go through the cast of characters on Sesame Street (quietly, but out loud): Eh-mo (Elmo); Ab-bay (Abby); Coooook—eee (Cookie Monster); Buh-t (Burt).
- The way she rocks her baby dolls and pats their wee-wittle backs.
- Her tiny but absolutely amazing memory and how she uses it to “read” books out loud—it blows this Mama’s mind!
- Her love of coloring. I’d be ecstatic if she became an artist one day. (ELC still thinks it’s fun to color…bless her self-described un-artistic heart…)
- The way she sings and dances—so joyfully and unabashedly!
- She’s my shadow. My sidekick. I love hearing her call out “Mama?” when she’s temporarily lost me in the house. Which is very infrequently and doesn’t last longer than five seconds.
ELC/Mam’s Seven:
- That she’s her Mama’s Mini Me! She’s literally taken me back in time to TLC’s birth, infancy and toddlerhood.
- Her exquisitely mesmerizing, expressive and beautiful eyes.
- Her cRaZy hair!
- That she loves green beans and blueberries!
- That she already loves clothes and shoes (like her Mama)—but only wants to play with her bows and headbands.
- That she already needs books—reading/looking at them many times throughout her busy days.
- That she says “puhls” (for pearls—I have a dish of old pearl necklaces on my nightstand that she must play with three or four times a day when she’s at our casa) and “guhls” (for girls). Too cute.
