Yesterday at the arboretum I made the discovery that I could reliably make Madeline smile when doing a raspberry with my tongue. This was a useful thing for photography since she often doesn’t smile when I am looking through the camera and I can do whatever I want with my tongue to get her excited. The funny thing was that the consequence or coincidence of my doing repeated raspberries to get her attention is that she now also has started to make spitting noises with her lips buzzing in the form of a primitive and very cute baby raspberry.

We had Leelin the pug dog for the past couple of days and Madeline found that watching Leelin fetch with one of her toys may have been the funniest thing she has ever seen. This was measured in giggles sustained over a period of a half of an hour.