Fistful of...

Since you've been back at school, and I've been working from home, I've been able to pcik you guys up from school way more frequently than the "extremely rare" occurence of it when I was working from the office. Another silver lining of this whole thing. 

At any rate, y'all got in the car, we pulled over to buckle up and hand sanitize, and I say "Okay kids, give me your hands to I can put in hand sanitizer."

Aidan, you had your fist closed and looked at me reluctantly.

I said, "Okay, buddy, you can put down whatever's in your hand so I can give you hand sanitizer."

You looked at me reluctantly again, but then slowly complied. You turned your fist over, hovered it over the door handle/arm rest, and released....a fistful of WORMS!

You, me, and Julia looked at eachother in shock. And then...you said "Dad, These are the Worms I DIDN'T want to feed to the chickens!"

And the three of us erupted in laughter.

Gut busting, tear-inducing laughter. 

It was a GREAT afternoon, and an Epic Story. And I'm happy to report that all of the worms were released into the wild in our front yard, and lived happily ever after. 

Laughing Button Pusher

Aidan, Remember how I was telling you how much you like to laugh? And how much you like to make other people laugh? And how much laughing makes you laugh even more?

You don't? Okay, well, don't worry about it. I'm telling you now.

You LOVE to laugh (ha ha ha ha!)

Sometimes you giggle.

Sometimes you say "tee hee!"

Sometimes you laugh like your old favorite hero, Sherrif Woody.

Now, when counting, you even have a Transylvanian laugh like Sesame Street's "the Count!"

Sometimes you even just start laughing when you hear other people laughing...because you don't want them to think that you're not in on the joke!

Now you don't always laugh easily. Sometimes your funny bone is pretty hard to tickle, but once you get an Aidan laugh going, you just can't stop it...especially if you have an audience of adults who are lauging with you.

Such was the case a few weeks ago when you climbed into Mimi and Pops' car while kissing them goodbye. You sat in Mimi's lap and started excitedly pushing all the buttons you could push...if you had a hundred hands, all of them would have been fiddling with one dial, button or another. But, the two hands you do have seemed to cause enough mischief.

Then, when you figured out the windshield wiper, the laughter started.

Then Mimi and Pops started encouraging you with their laughter.

And the laughing button pusher continued until his grandparents were tearing up with laughter.

Your laugh is infectious, and we love to make you laugh. But, it's even better when you make us laugh too!

FUNNIEST BOOK PAGE EVER

I totally want to recap our adventure to the beach, because we had a great time and a lot of great laughs.

But, last night you made us laugh so hard that I couldn't help but write it up immediately.

First of all, I was bathing you and talking to you all about bubbles (specifically the bubbles that come out of an empty bottle when you submerge it). You love bubbles and love to say "bubbbbb uhl." But then you recalled a different way to make bubbles. You stood up in the tub and grabbed my hair and tried to push my face to the water, like you do when we're in the pool and you want me to blow bubbles. You had me cracking up!

But, the best was yet to come.


During story time before bed, your Mommy was reading to you and you requested the Jungle Pop Up Book that you love so much. I've read this book to you a million times (by making up my own words, mind you, because if we linger on the page long enough to read the printed text, all pop up jungle animals would be as decapitated as the poor eviscerated chameleon). But, your Mommy read it to you with a new, more subtle approach to story telling.

You opened the first page to reveal the snake popping out from a tree limb and your Mom screamed "Snakey snakey snakey!"

And you just lost it!

You started laughing so hard and making the snake pop out again and again. You laughed so hard that you were coughing; you laughed so hard that you wheezed; you laughed so hard that I'm sure your belly was hurting. You laughed so hard that your Mom and I cracked up too!

But you kept laughing and laughing for what seemed like ages!

You laughed long enough that I just sat and soaked it up for a long time and then when it continued, I went and grabbed a camera. But it was out of battery. So I went back to the kitchen, grabbed my phone and recorded two more full minutes of you laughing your diaper off!

Man, just watching this video makes me smile.

Laughter is infectious, for real. This laugh could have started an epidemic!



SNAKEY SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE!

Laugh it up!

You love to laugh and love to make other people laugh. Typically, you get good laughs by laughing yourself, which then makes you want to laugh again.



It's gotta be one of the all-time best games ever.

Playing and Playing...and Hamming it Up

You really love to play and giggle and laugh-laugh-laugh your head off. Your laugh is just about one of the best sounds your Mom and I have ever heard. I wish I could bottle it up and save it for a rainy day...but that's kind of hard to do. So, one afternoon, I was determined to try to capture it on video.

But, as you can see, this task wasn't as easy as it sounded.

The only problem, as you will see, is that the second you spot the camera, you stop doing what you were doing and ham it up for your close-up.

So I have to try to become a guerilla camera man and sneak up on you to even begin to capture your glee on camera!

Of course, you always find me! But, you know what? I can totally live with that!