I have had this blog for several months now. I want so badly to be able to record the girls lives and share my thoughts and feelings but life happens and you run out of time so I need to start making more time to do this. Leyla and Hannah are my world and so I found the title of this blog to be quite appropriate. And now for my first real blog!
Leyla loves her bear. I’m not exactly sure how Bear (that is her name!) was chosen to be her “lovey” (as the Pajanimals sing about on their DVD we watch quite often) but one day when she was probably around 8 months old she took to Bear, who had been around since she was born, and that was it. I definitely would have preferred for her to have chosen the little blanket lamb or something much more washable! The instructions for Bear are to surface clean as she is a musical bear who has legs that are pulled down and go up with the music (the lullaby song). Bear has been taken pretty much everywhere, funny though not to Aunt Pat’s as she has a special Bear that lives there! Leyla loves to hold Bear’s hand up to her face while she watches TV, sleeps, or just when she needs to be comforted – I think doing this relaxes her in a way nothing else can and as Val has been my “lovey” since 1st grade I know the feeling. What amazes me about Leyla and Bear is that Leyla is quite OCD. Things need to be perfect and just so with her almost at all times. But Bear, well, now at almost 2 years of being Leyla’s lovey, she has been washed in the washing machine (post stomach bug at the strike of midnight New Years this year) despite the “surface wash only” directions, she has been opened and closed several times by Daddy and Grammy to get the mechanisms working again, and now her legs hang low and she does not play music much at all. But Leyla LOVES HER just the way she is, barely any pink left in her, legs hanging low and unable to play music…it doesn’t matter to Leyla because Bear is her true love. I look at Leyla and her love of Bear and see that she is already a Mommy…she loves her Bear unconditionally no matter what…just like I love my Leyla and my Hannah unconditionally and will always no matter what…they are perfect to me and always will be.
Bear with Leyla at her 18 month photos - June 2010
Bear out trick or treating with Leyla - October 2010
Bear with Leyla at her 2 year photos - November 2010
