Every day as Azita grows older, she grows a personality that amazes me. My little girl has personality in spades, and she’s funny. Seriously. She has a sense of humor. It’s hard to describe, but it’s a look in her eyes when she does something amusing. It’s the way she smiles kind of crooked. You can tell she knows she’s funny and the power that gives her.
So, with that said, here are a few things that make me laugh. My favorite things. The things that make it impossible for me to not pinch her cheeks and smother her with kisses.
- Azita coughs a lot. It turns out she may actually have asthma, which isn’t funny. What is funny is that she passes gas every time she coughs. Loudly. And the best part is that she smiles her toothless smile and toddles along as if she didn’t just make the funniest sound ever.
- Azita loves to dance, and she does it all the time. It’s cute, but you know what’s funny? When Azita does something new or something she’s a little proud of, she dances a little jig. And it’s the funniest jig you’ve ever seen. She stands up on her tippy toes and starts stamping her right foot to an imaginary beat as her torso kind of jerks to and fro.
- Azita is as clumsy as she is daring, so she falls a lot. When she first became mobile, I was a wreck. Then I realized that I imagined it hurt far more than it actually hurt her. How do I know this? Because when she falls or has some other accident she says “Whoooooaaaaa”, laughs, and gets right back up, usually bolting across the room. It’s adorable, and not just because she says “Whooooooaaaaa”, but also because she falls with the comedic style and timing of Lucille Ball.
- Azita’s appetite can be pretty spotty, but when she gets hungry boy does she get hungry. Have I mentioned that she inherited her mother’s propensity for sporting a food baby. And she really, really sports it. When she gets up from her booster chair she thrusts her belly out and wobbles around, clearly off balance from the drastic change in her center of gravity. When I’m at work and missing her or just having a bad day, I close my eyes and picture her with her little belly pregnant with food and I can’t help but laugh.
