Getting Funnier

Joseph is getting funnier.

Joseph has always enjoyed making people laugh. One of my all-time favorite memories of Joseph's first year came when he was about 10-months old. We were in Target, and he wanted to hold on to a clear plastic storage container that we were buying. I handed it to him, and he promptly stuck it on his head and began making noises so that people would look at him as we walked by. He kept searching for more people to look at him, and his eyes would twinkle each time he made eye contact with someone new.

This game of sticking things on his head has remained a funny joke to him for over a year. For example, in November it was a colander:



Somewhere along the way, as seen in the following short videos, he also added covering his eyes and then intentionally trying to walk into things:

Currently, he now likes to do this thing where he looks straight up in the air, raises his shoulders, sticks his arms out to the side, and runs around while making a distinct moan/yell. Hopefully, we'll get that on video at some point.

Poking, tickling, and quickly shutting doors have also become things he does to get a laugh out of people.

He's also added repeated, frequent tackling to his list of things he thinks are funny. Often, in what appears to be an attempt to catch you off guard, he hesitates for a second or two before charging at you. Another staple of his routine is to stick two pacifiers in his mouth at the same time and run around--most of his recent humor involves running or yelling.

Here he is trying to make getting ready for bed into something funny:


I like this photo because it shows the look he gets in his eyes when he's making people laugh (mommy is apparently still thinking about the bar in this picture).

It's just fun to observe him, because he does these things and then watches to see how people react. If he gets laughs, he laughs too. He then does it again, getting himself more and more excited and wound up each time.