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The last couple of weeks have been so much fun. We have had lots of visitors and lots of fun activities. Kara and Jenn came to visit several weekends ago. We went shopping, layed out by the pool, went out to eat, and stayed up late just laughing and being silly. It was so good to see them and have some good girl time. I owe a big thanks to Paul who spent most of his weekend watching Leila so I could just hang out. The day after Kara and Jenn left my mom flew in. Leila loved having her nana here, she followed her around all week and wanted nothing to do with me or Paul, everything had to be done by nana. We went shopping and out to eat and my mom basically took care of Leila while I read the entire Twilight series, which I loved, I am totally obsessed with vampires now and am really excited for the movie. Leila was so sad when my mom left, she cried and cried and the first couple of times I went into her room to get her up in the morning or up from her nap she would ask for nana. We then had a visit from my sister Leslie her husband Jason and my brother Marcus. Leila of course attached herself to them and only wanted their help with naps, dinner and bedtime. It was fun to spend time with them. Leila is now looking forward to a visit from Paul's mom and sister.

Now a few things about Leila, she weighs a whopping 23 lbs (25%) which is a huge increase since her 15 month appointment which she only weighed 17 lbs 13 oz and she is 30 inches tall (5%). She is such a busy girl and so much fun, she keeps us laughing all the time. She loves books her favorites right now are Patty Cake, Miss Mary Mack, My Goodnight Book, Ducks in a Muck, Birthday Monsters, and The Monster at the End of the Book, she is always looking at books or asking me to read to her. We go to the library every week to find new books. She loves Elmo, Barney and her bebe dolls (baby dolls). She really likes going to her tumbling class her favorite things to do there are to hang on the bars, walk on the balance beam and jump on the tramp. Leila is talking so much and is starting to talk in sentences, she learns a dozen new words every day. My favorite is when we were going to the store and she said to me, "mama I nee my bebe daw" (mama I need my baby doll). Other favorite words are sexy, ice cream, head band, elbow, candy, pizza, cheese, no diaper, shoes, and be happy. I love that she is talking so much, especially now that she can tell me what she wants or what is wrong. Leila sleeps really well at night from about 9-8 and then takes a 2-3 hour nap during the day. She makes us so happy. We love it here in Henderson, I just wish it would cool down I am sick of ninety degree weather.

I just started doing some digital scrapbooking, I had heard of it but didn't really understand it well a friend I met had just started doing it and showed me how to do a few things and I love it, I still am not very good and have alot to learn but it is so much fun, plus there is not a huge mess with scrapbook supplies everywhere, my next step is to figure out how to print them. I can't wait to see all the pages I have made in a book.

Wait, you are way to young!

Leila had been in the front room playing with her daddy's scooter helmet, I took some pictures of her and then went back to the family room a few minutes later Leila came running into the kitchen and threw something into he garbage (yes she knows where the garbage is, I have trained her well), she came over to me smelling like mint and chewing something quite vigorously. I soon noticed that the thing she was chewing was blue and was gum from my purse. I asked her what she had and she said "yay gum", I tried to grab it out of her mouth and she took off running and yelling "no my gum". So I let her chew it for a little bit and then we threw it out. Oh goodness she is growing up way to fast.