Not the Mama!

For weeks Leo teased me with "da" and I was desperately hoping that he would call me Dada. Then all of a sudden he said "Mama" and ever since it's been Mama this and Mama that. I felt like "Earl" from that old TV show Dinosaurs (see clip). Finally we had a breakthrough and those longed-for words were like music to my ears. All day, we've heard "dada dadada dad da". Any moment now, just like the in the clip, I'm expecting him to finish with, "Not the Mama"!

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