It’s contagious!

I learned a new trick today: I can make MAD laugh!

See, I’ve been smiling for more than a month. It always gets some attention.

But my new trick really gets MAD going.

So this morning, Dad was bouncing me up-and-down on his leg. Then he starts with one of his random tunes again. But the tune he was humming kind of went with the bouncing. It was really funny. So I started to smile, and then this funny noise came out my mouth and, then, my mouth just kind of popped wide open.

It’s not like it was the first funny sound I’ve produced, but combining this funny sound with my mouth popping open really drew some notice. Mom came over and started laughing a bunch.

“Wait, wait, wait,” she said. She went off, grabbed the camera, and came back. “It’s his first laugh!”

I had no idea, but the noise I was making was getting a lot of enthusiastic attention from Dad, too. So I just kind of went with it.

MAD kept laughing. It made me laugh more, and then they laughed more. Pretty soon it was just a bunch of silly people: MAD laughing like crazy, and me laughing like MAD! Ha!