Laughter

Is the best thing in the whole world when someone laughs. It just shouts joy. Porter has this adorable thing he does because he doesn't know quite how to laugh. He will smile this big smile that just takes up his whole face, his eyes gleam, and somehow his smile then gets bigger. Once it's bigger he just lets out this little cough and looks pleased with himself. It's his version of a laugh. Today it changed. I was playing right up close to him and bouncing him around in his chair. He seemed closer and closer to just bursting out in full blown santa chuckles he was so happy. I waited and kept going and nothing came. finally I got out a real live heh. It's the tiniest little thing, and I honestly can hardly remember it because it was gone so fast, like a little piece of dust you try to catch out of the air but you can never quite get it. That's my memory of his first laugh while he was awake, but I love that little speck of a memory and I'll love it forever.