do you remember the time...

i don't know what brought this to mind but the memory totally busted me up...

ok...kyleigh must've been maybe...ohhh, 18-20 months old at this point? just after she started walking? ok...maybe younger...

she's sittin' in her booster chair finishing lunch as i clean up....

she's having an imaginary conversation w/ someone... i dunno who, but it's all babble but w/ you know, with the proper lilts in voice and intonations as if you were having a real conversation...it's pretty entertaining as is...

then she get's that look...that kinda...you know...kinda wistful, looking off into the imaginary distance with her index finger to her chin...rhythmically tapping...voice going softer as she tries to remember...

and then excitement as if she remembers some event and then...

serious guffawing...i mean head thrown back, eyes wound shut, mouth wide open, booster chair rocking, gut-busting laughter...

if you ever heard her laugh...you'd know what i mean.

she...is just like her mom in that way...