Hot Pursuit

Betty has a sense of humor. She laughs, as I recently noted, but she also plays her own little jokes. For a while now I've been playing a game where I chase her around the room and she gets away from me by going under the bed. (It used to be that I had to pretend that she could get away--now I really do have a hard time catching her. She's fast!) But that's not really Betty's joke since I invented the game. Betty has come up with a variation of it though that is 100% her idea.

In the morning when I go to get her from her crib, she'll stand up at the end and smile at me, and as soon as I get close she'll drop down and crawl to the other end. Then she stands up and waits for me to come over, then she drops down and crawls back to where we started. She plays several rounds of Keep Away From Mommy before I finally catch her--all this while wearing a sleep sack.

Her other joke involves pretending to choke on her food. She plays this game, no doubt, because Mommy and Daddy's reactions to it are hilarious. We're not quite so amused by this particular little game.