Belly aching laugh

Tonight Evette and I were taking turns chasing each other. To initiate, she starts to crawl away quickly, looks over her shoulder and gives a deep belly laugh. I respond "I'm gonna get you! I'm gonna get the baby!" to which she responds with another deep belly laugh, looks forward and starts scurrying across the floor.

Some times she chases me back. Tonight she caught me and I fell over. She sat up for a second, resting on one knee bent underneath her, her other leg bent to a semi-squat, and I squealed like she was already tickling me. She got the cue, charged at me and buried her face in my side, letting off loud squeals and laughs the whole time, as did I. 

She's never done that before. I stand in awe of how quickly she learns things, just picking random things up from what we do to and for her. Heidi and I (and dozens of family members) have buried their faces in her side to give her raspberries -- tonight she decided to try it for herself. We loved it.

Another awesome moment tonight: when we're tired, Heidi will often stretch out on the ground and I lie on top of her. Evette's never paid us much notice when we've done that before, but tonight she charged straight at us and started giving wonderful, open-mouthed, sopping wet kisses all over Heidi's face (she's been doing that for a while now - especially to our noses). I took the que and started blowing raspberries on Heidi's neck. Heidi was laughing, screaming, and gasping for air all at once. It was hilarious. Evette found it so funny she kept on coming back and back until Heidi was laughing so hard she couldn't breath any more. I helped pull Heidi up to a sitting position where she composed herself. Evette sat back and watched us for a second, and then crawled away to play with something.

We love it.