Friends and laughter

Chase is getting more "interactive" with his friends lately. A couple of weeks ago, when Grandpa T was visiting, our friend Rebekah stopped by with her daughter, Zel. Zel is a couple of weeks older than Chase, and has an older brother. She is mobile - crawling and pulling up on things, while Chase is still only going in circles and sometimes scooting backwards. He had enough momentum, though, to grab and "kiss" her, as seen in this video.




He gave Liam and Kiran (other baby-friends) much the same treatment when we saw them yesterday. It's so fun to see him interacting with other people; before he'd seemed pretty content to look at them and smile, but now he wants to touch.

Chase also finds weird things funny, like waving blankets and bouncing cloth blocks (again, see video). His favorite, though, are his dad's funny voices. James makes a stuffed giraffe "talk," uses different voices when he reads Chase stories, and sometimes just talks weird. This makes mama smile, too.