I’ll never forget the first time my Max laughed. He was about three months old, I made a funny noise and he let out this “Heh, heh, heh” that cracked me up. It felt good to laugh; I’d cried a lot during the first few months of his life.
Another happy memory: When Max was nine months or so, my husband and I took him to this restaurant and we were seated at a table beneath a ceiling fan. He sat in his car seat, stared at the whirring fan and kept giggling. Soon, everyone at the tables around us was laughing, too.
Max’s laughter keeps me going. Even when I’m in the saddest/crappiest of moods, when I hear him giggle everything suddenly seems OK. I just discovered a new activity this weekend that gets him going: I put him on one shoulder, then run around the house like a maniac shouting “Max is an airplane! Max is flying!” We both think it’s a riot.
Max also laughs whenever anyone drops something; at this one scene in the beginning of 101 Dalmations; and when you play hide-and-seek and you find him.
What cracks your child up?
I also cherish every moment of my youngest daughter Hannah’s laughter. She laughs at the most unusual things! One time she laughed for over a minute, and we have no clue why… here is the video
http://littlemisshannah.com/2009/01/because-it-makes-me-laugh/
Look at that beautiful picture of Max…what a smile!
I know what you mean…my son Jacob has autism, and he also has the most wonderful deep belly laugh I’ve ever heard. He doesn’t just hand it out, you have to work for it. But the tutors who work with him will bend over backward to get “the laugh.”
The things that most often works for me is tickles & kisses. He loves them! Other things that just crack him up are the movie Ice Age (where they go sliding on the ice, especially!), things on television that are sped up or are in slow motion, and sometimes animals he thinks are unique (the breathing/snorting sound made by the English Bulldogs next door, for instance).
Here is a older video of him laughing at Ice Age…not the belly laugh until the very end…
http://thefivedays.blogspot.com/2008/12/ever-lasting-ice-age.html
Clayton’s laughter is music to our ears. And you wanna know what cracks him up the most??? ANYTHING POOP RELATED. The stinkier the better in his opinion! At least we know he’s a typically developing boy in that sense!!!!!
Tamie and Carrie, those videos made my day. Everyone should go check them out!
Ashley, you’re right, it is such a little-boy thing to be obsessed with poop! Don’t you just love that?!!
She loves walking around in circles in the middle of the living room floor. Totally cracks herself up! And then us.
And if she is holding a ribbon or piece of trailing fabric, a shirt or something, she enjoys it even more. Simple things.