January 19, 2013
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Layla, 20 months
Layla brought me this dress yesterday, out of her closet, and I put it on over her pajamas. She gazed down at her dress-clad belly happily and said “P’ea!” (pretty) with satisfaction. She is very aware of “pretty” clothes, and loves to be told that her shirt or dress is pretty, and will comment that something I am wearing is “p’ea!”. This dress is hand-me-down from her cousin Aubrey.
Seeing her in this dress reminded me that I have wanted to take her picture for, oh, like, MONTHS, so I hurried to get the rest of her clothes and went out the door to take her picture. She was happily cooperative, and loves to smile at her daddy, who was helping me.
She’s a “p’ea” lil’ ol’ cutie.
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Layla loves to color or scribble with a pencil on paper, books, walls, or herself.
She appears to be left-handed.
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Ms. Teensy Moo has been sleeping TERRIBLY since returning from our Christmas travels, in case anyone is interested. Cutting eye teeth and a cough that makes her occasionally vomit are the current problems. NOT a big fan of this new sleeplessness we have going on around here AT ALL.
She’s quite the dear when she is sleeping, though… Look at that precious little ear and sweet little head. Smooch smooch smooch smooch….
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Layla loves her baby dolls. Here she was rocking and singing to her baby that she had wrapped up in a blanket. She’ll sing “Nighty night, c’ose (close) your eyes”, from a song that Grandma Edith has sang to her. She loves to be cuddled and sang to, also.
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Baby Girl loves her some “ba’s” (baths). She is so cute all wrapped up in her towel post-bath, and walks around very happily in her towel for a while.
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Layla is talking a lot and very active. She loves to run around the house with her brothers, and crow and screech with glee. She is quite the adamant little pal, and has NO TROUBLE sticking up for herself with them when she feels her rights and privileges have been trod upon unnecessarily.
She is quick to answer “Doa!!” (NO!!) to most things you may ask her, without necessarily meaning it. She is happy and cheerful and affectionate and cuddly. She asks for “Daddy tisses” (Daddy kisses) before going to bed – and just asks about him a lot, period. ”Daddy ‘back?” “Yes, Daddy will be back.” She LOOOOOVES her daddy and brothers, and they come right in line after Mommy. 
Mommy is still the bees knees. She looooves to help me with everything I do. She loves to look outside for “kie-kie’s” (kitty-kitties). One night when she was up late, Tim took her right outside the front door to listen to the train passing, which is about 1/4 mile away and sounded very loud with the cloud cover. She came back inside and hurried over to the couch where I was sitting and said in a hushed tone with an astonished look on her face, “Mommy!! Noisy!!!” She talked about “Noisy!” for a few days later, again with a wide-eyed, listening look on her face.
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Girlfrien’ is an AVID pepper-er.
