The new baby: May 2008 Archives

I discovered about a week and a half ago how to make Noah belly-laugh.

While I was changing his diaper, I tickled him along his ribs, and he smiled and giggled a little. So I tried again, and he smiled and giggled some more.

And then, about two days later, I was changing his diaper (clearly it's something I do a lot of lately) and singing "You Are My Sunshine" to him, and he was smiling and giggling a little at that. So I tickled him while I sang.

And he went crazy.

He cracked up. He laughed so hard I had to stop tickling and singing every few seconds so he could breathe. His whole little belly jiggled, and his little face turned bright red from the laughing.

I've tried it a bunch of times since then (no way I could let that go, uh-uh), and I get the same results. He can barely contain himself.

I can't explain it. But I'm enjoying it.

Anything unusual that your kids find funny?

Need a smile today? Click here to see a picture of Noah that Sam recently took with my cell phone.

When Sam was a baby, I knew how old she was down to the week and the day. As in, "She's 13 weeks and 4 days old."

And I knew every milestone or skill she was supposed to have hit by that week, which ones she was lagging on and which ones made her "advanced" for her age.

With Noah? Yeah, not so much.

Here's a new pic of my baby. It has only recently occurred to me that he won't be a helpless baby for much longer -- he's going to be sitting up and crawling and getting into everything in just a couple of months.

Not sure how I forgot that part. Think I was having too much fun just kissing him and cuddling him.

Even though my yesterday ended at 2 a.m. and my today started at 5:45 a.m., it's still been a good day.

That's because this morning, little Mr. Noah, in an unprecedented string of babbling, blurted out "mama" AND "dada."

I know, he doesn't know yet that those sounds together have special meaning for us. But it was still darn exciting.