Yes, this is my 2nd post of the day! Please look below for First Impressions. This post is part of the Lenny-Lee-Fest, a shout out to a fellow blogger and all around great kid.
My Top 10 Reasons to Love Lenny:
10. Alliteration. Lenny Lee is a GREAT name. From Marilyn Monroe to Fred Flintstone — Who doesn’t love somebody with an alliterative name?
9. Animal lover. Lots of Lenny’s posts are about animals. He’s always interested in the pets of his blogger friends. He even had my goofy dog Sorcia on his blog sidebar for awhile!
8. Neat handwriting. I got a card from Lenny once, and his handwriting made my 5th grade students’ handwriting look like chicken scratch! How come my students don’t write like that? Wasn’t someone supposed to teach them … oh, yeah … um … Let’s move on.
7. Heartfelt voice. Any writer knows that developing voice is essential to good writing. Well, Lenny comes by it naturally! I used his post on dolphins with my class to demonstrate how voice can be used in a non-fiction piece.
6. Exclamation points!!! You can never use too many.
5. Bold. Lenny’s not afraid to poke fun at his grown-up blogging buddies. Regarding my 16th wedding anniversary, Lenny commented: “Yikes! You been married way more longer than I am old.” (I almost fell out of my chair laughing.)
4. Walking Advertisement. Here’s Lenny’s comment about my We Hear the Dead t-shirts: “For sure those tee shirts are something to make people look. I know cause I’m a walking ad. My brother was flirting with a girl who waited on him at the store and he got asking her what she likes to do and she said she loves reading stuff and likes that history fiction lots. He grabbed me and swung me around like a top and pointed at your book on the back of my shirt and said you just gotta read this book. She wrote it down and said shes gonna get it. Hooray for We Hear the Dead tee shirts! He got a date from it too.” (Another ROFL for me …)
3. Insightful. In spite of his age, Lenny is incredibly insightful. When he read my brother-in-law Larry’s guest post about babysitting Sorcia, Lenny shrewdly noted that Larry and his wife seemed to be pining for a dog of their own. Not only was he right, but Larry and Deb now have their own German Shepherd!
2. Fooled me but good! In Jen Daiker’s Guess My Character Blogfest, I pegged Lenny’s character Gunther as a good-looking hunk who didn’t know all the girls were in love with him. But turns out, Gunther was a goat.
And (drum roll please), the Number One Reason to Love Lenny …
1. Smiles. Every single comment and email from Lenny makes me smile!
Have a great day, Lenny! Enjoy your Fest! We all hope to see you back in action and on your blog again real soon! And any of my blog readers who haven’t met Lenny yet (can there possibly be any?) ought to stop by his blog and say “Hi!”
Those are all great Lenny Loving Reasons! 🙂
What a thoughtful and funny top 10 list. Who wouldn’t want to be recognized like this. I’m sure Lenny will appreciate it.
Ha ha ha ha ha! I’m practically ROFL just from reading your top 10. Love these Dianne!
Lenny, you are too cool for words! 🙂
LOL!!! Hahahahaha…Oh man…he is one funny kid.
LOL Number 4 is killing me!! So cute and classic Lenny! 🙂
Oh I love, love, LOVE this! Very well done. What a great idea to celebrate the awesome that is LENNY. 🙂
Angela @ The Bookshelf Muse
Well done! The top ten reasons. So very cool. Thanks for the giggles. Loved reading them all, but #4 was classic!
What a great post! You are so right about Lenny…he is wise beyond his years, he’s insightful and he makes everyone smile. 😀
Oh I love this post, Dianne! Thanks for visiting my blog 🙂 I love Lenny’s alliterative name (winks)
Those comments of Lenny’s cracked me up! Thanks for sharing, and hooray for Lenny!
That’s hilarious re: Gunther the goat! Great post, Dianne.
This comment is from Hilary Melton-Butcher, who was unable to get a comment to stick:
Hi Dianne .. good to meet you and to hear your stories about Lenny – all absolutely appropriaate ..that kid is something special .. I love the one about him being spun round – with your ‘We Hear the Dead’ advert on the back of it .. the family just have that wonderful way with them ..
Great post – enjoy the weekend .. we’ll be thinking about Lenny so much .. cheers Hilary
I would say that the top ten reasons of Lenny are adorable, but that would probably make him gag. Too girly. LOL! So I’ll just say thanks for sharing those funny things he’s told you. He is one amazing kid. Hooray for Lenny! Have a great weekend, Dianne–thanks again!
This is such a great post and I learned a little bit more about Lenny while reading. What a great day spreading Lenny sunshine. 🙂
Lenny Lee is a lovely lad. (Sure he isn’t a closet 30-year-old??) I’d be proud to have this young man as a grandson.
What a great shout out!