I have to say, one of the best things about being Abbey’s
mom is getting to see her sense of humor.
The things that make her laugh are so out of the ordinary. She has THE BEST belly laugh! It's this low toned rumble, and she has a dimple on her left cheek that comes out when she smiles really big or laughs. Here are some of the things about her that make US laugh.
For as long as I can remember, Abbey has laughed at
“mishaps.” My husband and I like to call it her “death and peril” humor. We were turning the TV channel once and there
was a person hanging onto the edge of a cliff with their feet dangling and
screaming…I thought she was going to pass out from laughing so hard. We quickly discovered that The Three Stooges is one of her favorite
shows. Anytime someone gets bonked
upside the head with a 2x4 she’s practically sliding off the couch in
hysterics. If you are in danger, she is
laughing about it.
At some point in the early years, our youth group kids
discovered that pretending to knock each other over would set her off. They quickly made a point of doing it on
purpose just to get her to laugh. Then
she figured out that she could walk up to them and barely touch them and they
would pretend to fall backward. Such
power! Such fun! It was all well and good until she started
grabbing other children by the clothes to pull them down, and then proceeded to
crack up while they were crying. We put
a quick stop to that one.
Or there’s the back slapping. Sometimes in the middle of church she will
get excited and start slapping Ryan (or perhaps the people in the pew in front
of us) on the back. Only Abbey doesn’t
know how to do “gentle” or “quiet” so it’s extremely loud and rough. The commotion of getting her to stop makes
her laugh. Speaking of church, she
thinks passing the offering plate and communion are hilarious also. When the elders line up at the back of the
church to come forward, she starts winding up for a laugh. Sometimes when they pass the communion plate
she tries to stand up or sneak in a “hi” wave to one of the elders….I like to
think of it as celebrating the joy of taking communion. We should all have such joy to give our money
and remember Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for us!! If you live here and get a chance, try to sit
behind us one Sunday and watch her during the “meet and greet” time, or the praise
and worship. Seriously, it is so precious…
She thinks being a big sister is great. Once when our youngest was a baby I couldn’t find
her in the house (never, EVER a good sign) and when I did, I also found Desitin
smeared all over the walls of my bedroom, the bed, the diaper changing table,
the bassinet, a doll she had placed inside the bassinet, and herself!
She’s always getting into trouble trying to
do things she shouldn’t do like that…like putting my keys in the food
processor, her hearing aids in the trash, walking off with something I was
working on, or hiding in the corner of her room with our electronics and
pushing buttons. She managed to switch
our answering machine into Spanish once, and it stayed that way for almost a
month. All the instructions came out in
Spanish and I couldn’t find the book!
Why, oh why did I take French in High School!!?? Don’t let her near your i-phone…she is not as
innocent as she looks!
Abbey also loves loud noises. Perhaps it’s the hearing loss? When we got a
new DVD player it came with a volume knob instead of a button. She likes to practice “drive by” volume
control. Very casually she walks past
and then sneaks a hand out to turn the volume on the TV to its highest
setting. Of course this gets quite a
reaction out of us, so she’s laughing at us running to turn it down. She even thinks
a screaming baby is hysterical. If you
are in the grocery store with a child throwing a temper tantrum, you are
Abbey’s best friend. She will find you,
she will laugh at your child, and she will probably sit down on the floor while
doing it because when she laughs that hard she can’t stand up anymore.
If all of that isn’t funny enough, now that she’s a big girl
she likes to grab people’s phones and purses.
It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t know you. If you’re not looking, she’ll take your purse
and walk off with it over her shoulder.
As soon as we catch her, she makes this face and throws it back at
you. She even takes things OUT of
people’s purses! It has finally gotten
to the point where I just make a joke out of it to keep from being
embarrassed. I tell people, “Oh, I
taught her how to do that..she’s pretty good huh?”
I.LOVE. THIS. KID.
She reminds me to loosen up, and that sometimes it’s just worth laughing
about!