The Sounds of Silence

to paraphrase:

... people laughing laughs
that voices never aired
no one dared
oh yes I laugh... in silence

OK I'll just admit it. I'm one of those people who when we laugh really, really hard--

we make no noise.
None.

Just this kind of tick-tocky "ah-ah-ah" escapes from the back of my throat.
Has this fact been the cause of even more laughter amongst my friends? Oh yes.

And so I only bring this up in this forum because, just after Christmas, for the first time, I heard (sort of) Anna do the same thing. She was laughing really, really hard, and there it was:

ah-ah-ah-ah-
deep breath-
ah-ah-ah-ah

and so on.

I had really been hoping this was one trait that hadn't worked it's way through the genetic sieve.

The funny thing is, within a few days of this discovery Anna heard me do the same thing. OR almost heard. And for the next 10 minutes she kept grabbing my chin to turn my face towards her and demanding "Laugh, Mommy! Laugh!"