Abigail has a delightful sense of humor that keeps expanding. For the past few days, she has been entertaining herself by putting herself, and her dolls and animals, in positions where they don’t necessarily belong. She has a little chair in her play area, and I looked over when I heard her guffaw. She thought it was pretty funny that she was STANDING on the chair instead of SITTING in it (It is only an inch or two off the ground). She also laughs when she puts a doll or animal in the chair in a sitting position, or when she manages to stuff one of them into the tiny compartment on her activity table where snacks usually go. HA HA HA, she says. This laugh is not the delighted giggles that she gets when wrestling with her dad; it is more intellectual, almost fake but not quite. It is for things that are conceptually funny rather than physically funny. She also uses it when Dr. G and I are laughing about something, and though she doesn’t know why, she likes the fact that we are laughing and wants to join in.

Some things that are physically funny are honking mama’s nose; dunking a hand in a cup of water and then getting mama’s face all wet; and, of course, splashing mama in the pool. It is also funny to come suddenly around a corner, or out from under a cloth, and surprise us. It is funny to see herself make a face or a weird movement in the mirror, and then kiss the image. It is funny to lay on mama’s neck and feel the vibrations when mama talks. Abi’s world is fully of funny things, and there seem to be more and more reasons to laugh.

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