Ok, you crack me up; especially when you don't crack up. See I often try to pull out my best tricks to make you laugh...nothing happens. You stare...or, if I'm really lucky, you a smile pulls at your lips but MAN ALIVE, kid, it is hard to get you to laugh...unless there's a dog nearby.
Although you did some squeals and laugh/coughs at first, you never really did a huge belly laugh until you met Nana and Papa's 2 labrador retrievers. I'll remember your first belly laugh forever: we were sitting around GG's (great grandma struck) house, celebrating Papa's birthday and the dogs start wrestling and barking. All of a sudden, noises that I had never heard before came out of you. Shrieks, squeals of delight and laughs of joy!!! I mean, seriously, if I knew how hilarious you would think dogs are, I would've bought one months ago just to hear you laugh.
For a couple days afterwards, we tried to get the dogs riled up and we'd even bark like dogs to see if that would make you laugh. Nope. Didn't work. It wasn't the same. You can be a tough crowd sometimes :)
A couple of months passed since your first major laugh and we visited Nana and Papa in Illinois. Low and behold, you cracked up laughing at the dogs again and again. Now we can get you to laugh a bit with kissing you on the neck or blowing raspberries on your belly but you don't just laugh at any old thing.
I wonder if you get that from me...I love to laugh and I do laugh a lot BUT if you get me watching tv, I barely crack a smile. In fact, if I smile while watching tv or a movie, that means it was pretty stinking funny. Takes a lot for me to laugh at things that I'm supposed to laugh at. However, I find the most random stuff funny. I'd like to think you are the same; you don't laugh because you're supposed to but you notice things nobody else does and it cracks you up.
So laugh...and laugh a lot. But don't laugh just because you 'should;' laugh because you want to.
Proverbs 31:25
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
Love, momma
