Leila turned one on the second of May and celebrated several times. She and Mommy went to Thomaston, Tuscaloosa, Mobile, and Foley all in the span of a week and a half. Daddy went along to Thomaston for Mother's Day and Tuscaloosa for Uncle Finch's college graduation.
Grandmama Pritchett came to visit for a few days after Leila's big trip to Alabama and among other fun things we shared Leila's first watermelon of the new year. Mommy installed some of her paintings in downtown Memphis at the Center City Commission and we all went downtown one day to see them. They looked so good one of the directors at the Commission wanted to buy the whole set.
The Memphis Zoo has just reopened their butterfly exhibit after a long winter so we went to visit again. Leila has grown just a bit since the first time we took her to the zoo exactly one year ago.
Leila eats nonstop nowadays. We usually feed her fruit (bananas, watermelon, strawberries), beans, vegetables (she doesn't go for broccoli), cereal, cheese, yogurt, juice, and whole milk. She helps us spread the food all over the tray and the floor. Frida helps pick up the choice bits off of the floor - mostly just the cheese and crackers and cereal.
Leila is trying very hard to learn to walk - she spends a lot of time every day holding on to one or two of her parents' hands, leaning forward, and quickly walking around the house, the yard, the driveway, and any place we happen to visit. Daddy especially likes it when she walks with her sandals on because they make an amusing slapslapslapslapslap sound as she moves.
Leila is trying very hard to learn to walk - she spends a lot of time every day holding on to one or two of her parents' hands, leaning forward, and quickly walking around the house, the yard, the driveway, and any place we happen to visit. Daddy especially likes it when she walks with her sandals on because they make an amusing slapslapslapslapslap sound as she moves.
