A Giggle Moment

"When a baby laughs for the first time, the laugh breaks into a thousand pieces and they all go skipping about, and that is the beginning of fairies..." James Matthew Barrie

Mimi (the other grandma) and I had a magical moment with Owen one night when he actually went beyond the smiling and cooing that we had grown accustomed to.

While Adam and Jenny went out to a movie, the "Screaming Greemies" (as we became affectionately known ---Grammie + Mimi = Greemie)and Poppy were left with the baby.

I was holding him in the kitchen when one of the dogs barked pretty loudly. While this normally would startle him, for some crazy reason on this night, he let out a belly laugh and giggle that stunned us and warmed our hearts at the same time. We couldn't believe it....

Well, after we got over our delight with his newest 'talent', we headed up to his little room for a new diaper. Lying on the changing table with his belly exposed, Owen again let out a wonderfully uncontrolled giggle. I kissed his little belly and he just continued to laugh and laugh. Mimi and I could not believe our good fortune at experiencing this enchanting moment together with our first grandson!

As the giggling continued, we yelled up for his grandpa (Poppy) to grab the video camera so that we could document this moment. Unfortunately, by the time he got there, Owen was so over-stimulated that he burst into tears. So, the 'proof' of this event could not be recorded.

We tried to get this reaction from him again the next day while we had a video camera recording....but, as you can see from the clip below....it was just not to be. Despite our tickling, belly 'blowing' and high pitched (!) encouragement-turned-begging, he just looked at us with an occasional grin wondering what these crazy people were up to....

The memory of this "first" will just have to remain in our hearts for now. He smiled throughout the weekend, but never burst into a side-splitting giggle again.

Now that he is back home in Minnesota, I am sure that there will be so many moments of giggles and belly laughs ahead for Adam and Jenny to experience...but for right now, he only showed this wondrous delight to us....

*sigh* (again)

: )