Ladies and Gentlemen.....we have a giggler!

Well, sort of.

Livy has been working on the giggle for quite some time. She has been cooing and gurgling and making a high-pitched kind of squeal. And for a couple weeks now, we've been able to tell that she's trying to giggle. It would come out as a kind of coo/cough. She'd be all smiles and having fun, and it was obvious that somewhere in there, she wanted to laugh.

Well last night I was talking and laughing with her, playing little tickle games and having a "conversation". As I played like I was biting her tummy, she let it out. The cutest little sound I've ever heard in my life, my daughter's first giggle. I interrupted poor Pat's game that he was playing to come downstairs. The way I yelled for him, he thought something was wrong! At first I only got about a half-ammused, I'll humor you Mom because you're trying so hard, type of sounds out of her. But lo and behold a couple attempts later, she giggled for Daddy to see, too.

How as it possible that a beautiful little girl laughing can bring tears to my eyes?

I guess today, I was not as amusing, but tomorrow I look forward to trying again. =)