One of the things we adore about Jamie is that he is so ready to laugh. Sometimes it can be a little weird because he can be in the midst of crying, find something irresistibly funny, laugh very genuinely about it and then go right back to the tears. But most of the time he is just on the lookout for surprising and funny situations and he finds them everywhere. Many include the cat. I heard him talking about her once and it sounded like he had said "Animal" instead of "Annabelle". I said this and he instantly started laughing hilariously and has been calling her "Animal" ever since. Then, better still, just before Christmas we were in the car with Nana and Pops. Suddenly from the back, where she is sitting with Jamie, Sarah says, "Oh Leo! I forgot to tell you that Animal threw up on your jeans!" Now, Jamie is already laughing hard. "Oh," I said, "the ones I'm wearing now?!!" Jamie is now completely dying. Funniest thing he's ever heard. Still laughs about that.
Jamie has also turned into quite the little comic and perhaps likes making other people laugh even more than laughing himself. Interestingly he's quite good at it. For camp last summer they had a talent show. We were fascinated to know what Jamie might do and he told us he would tell jokes. So he tried them out on us and they were really not funny. But at the camp? He killed. Absolutely killed. Here's his closer: "Why did the chicken cross the road? To save the world!!!" Killed with it. The moral of the story is you have to know your audience, and 5-10 year-olds are a much better audience than Sarah and I.
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He cracked me up when he cut off my ruminations about whether or not Santa would bring him a nerf gun for Christmas by saying he hoped Santa would bring him some smaller underpants "...'cause these are falling off!"
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