CHELSEA LEIGHANN WILKINS

Chelsea was a joy to have. She could be a little stinker at times but she never did anything to be malicious. When her Daddy would come home from work she'd run into the living room and yell, "DADDY!!!"

She loved the commercial on TV of the puppy singing, "Hello mother, hello father, fleas, ticks mosquitoes, really bother..." It's an Advantix commercial. She'd see that on TV and turn around and look at me and say, "That's my favorite commercial." She liked it so much she'd run in from another room to watch it if she heard the music.

She laughed like no one I've ever known. If you ever had the privilege to hear her laugh, it's a sound that you'd never forget. She loved Dora, the Explora. Her grandfather bought her tickets to go see Dora Explora live here in Texas and she just loved it. She watched public television here in Texas which is Sesame Street, Caliou, Between the Lions etc. every day.

She loved to play on my computer. She had a Dora game that she just loved because it was the same game as the live show that we had gone to see. She wanted to learn to ride the bike that Santa brought her for Christmas. She loved shopping for her daddy. A week or so before she passed, she went shopping with my mother and picked out the boxers for her Daddy.

She loved being a big sister. She went with my mother the day Isabella was born to the grocery store wearing her, "I'm the big sister," shirt. One elderly gentleman came up to her and asked her about her shirt. She looked at him with a solemn face and told him, "I have a baby sister and I just waited and waited and waited for her." When I was pregnant with Isabella and would take a bath, she would come in and say to me, "Mommy, can I help you wash baby sister?" (She was convinced that I was having a girl, even though the doctor told us he wasn't sure it was a girl or not.) Then she would wash my belly and sing, "This is the way we wash Mommy's belly early in the morning." It didn't matter what time of day it was, it was always early in the morning.

When she was small, I would tell her, "I love you," and she would say, "I love you too." Then I would say I love you more and she'd say I love you 'gin (again). It was just so cute the way it came out; we'd go back and forth I love you more, I love you 'gin, I love you 'gin, I love you more.

Chelsea loved ladybugs...she was a ladybug hunter. She could spot a ladybug in a room when no one else knew it was there. She was a photo ham...smiled all the time when someone wanted to take her picture.

She loved her grandma and pawpaw. They taught her how to play 'rolly polly.' They would wrap her up in a blanket and then pull the blanket while she rolled out of it onto the floor. She loved the pet store and the mall. She loved the park and making her, "Chelsea concoction." This is...when we'd go to her Grandma Cathy's and PawPaw Benny's she'd get PawPaw's coffee cup and start pouring anything she could find into it - ashes from the ash tray, salt, pepper, BBQ sauce, ketchup, dirt. Then she'd stir it up and that was her concoction. After she passed, Grandma Cathy and PawPaw Benny made a box and put the things to make her Chelsea concoction in the box so that they'd always have her concoction.

She loved to wash Grandma's car, go for walks, pick flowers (buttercups and dandelions were her favorite). She loved McDonald's chicken nuggets, and Nerds Rope. She loved her best friend, Melissa Ashleigh, and her family.

Chelsea was taken at the age of 4 in a drowning accident, please visit her at www.princesschelsealeighann.com

Submitted by: Leigh O'Dell on August 2, 2005