Easily amused

Ryan's giggle has burst out here and there for the past few weeks. It's still rare enough that when it happens, Hunter and I yell for the other to "Get in here! He's laughing!" And then we proceed to repeat whatever we happened to do to elicit the little hee-hee in the first place, over and over until he looks at us like we're certifiable.

The first thing that made him laugh was my impression of the Cookie Monster when I was changing his diaper. Maddie likes to tell Ryan what Sesame Street character is on the diaper, so I do it when Maddie's not here.

(Big Bird, Elmo, Grover, and Ernie – "he's friends with that other guy," Maddie says. "Bert?" I say. "Yeah, he's weird," Maddie says. "Why is he weird?" I say. "I don't know, he has a weird head." I laugh to myself and decide now's probably not the time to discuss Bert and Ernie's ambiguous relationship.)


But I digress. One time the diaper character was the Cookie Monster, and when I said "coo-KEE, coo-KEE, coo-KEE," Ryan laughed, so I've said "coo-KEE, coo-KEE, coo-KEE" every day since then like a crazed dessert fiend. Usually Ryan just smiles at me, thinking, she should have a cookie and leave me alone.


Notably not funny: Baby Alive. That chick is weird.

The other things that have made him laugh are my putting his foot in his mouth, and Hunter doing a high-pitched "hee hee hee." I tell you all this so you understand why I'm so goofy in this video, which was the first time he laughed long enough to get it on film.

So go ahead, play this over and over. It'll make your Grinchy heart grow three sizes.