Friday, February 10, 2006

Belly Laughter

There were 18 adults and four babies at bible study last night. What started out as a couples’ study has evolved into couples-plus-babies’ study. It works out okay except for the occasional interruption when a baby is either fussy or does cute things, like last night, and distracts everyone.

Last night I had Meredith on my lap. Across the room was Ty Edmondson, 9-months old. Ty suddenly took a toy and, as many babies do, began furiously shaking it up and down. When Meredith caught sight of this she let out a huge belly laugh. Ty paused and then resumed his shaking action. This resulted in even louder belly laughs from Meredith. She was practically hysterical at this point.

The discussion came to an abrupt halt and for the next five minutes we watched Meredith repeatedly laugh every time Ty shook his toy. When Ty paused, Meredith stopped laughing. When he started shaking it again, she would laugh even harder than the time before. Everyone in the entire room was laughing along with her. My cheeks hurt from laughing so hard. It was so funny to see the two babies interacting like that and to watch Meredith be so humored.

Silly little girl. How I love her.

1 comment:

Queen of Carrots said...

Funny how couples tend to turn into couples-plus-babies.