AUTHOR: suz TITLE: Laughing, Take Three DATE: 7/22/2005 10:42:00 PM ----- BODY:

I am sitting in the living room when J shouts down from the nursery that I need to come up right now. I panic, of course, and bolt up the stairs. Halfway up, I hear a belly laugh. Hers. Great, big, body-shaking guffaws. The kind that make your ribs hurt if they go on too long. She sounds like the shrunken-head version of her dad. Oh, the cuteness. How did he get this reaction? He picked up a package of wipes and smooshed it to get the air out. Apparently there is nothing funnier than the sound of crinkling plastic when her dad smacks the wipes. She's almost as easily amused as I am. Almost.

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