The Baby Laughs

THE BABY LAUGHS

When the baby doesn't cry, he sleeps.
When he doesn't sleep, he eats...
or watches...or wants.
But when the baby laughs,
Oh, what a sight!

As that smile beams across his face,
his eyes sparkle with joy, when the baby laughs!
When he sees mommy, or daddy,
or the wind blows in his face...
or "Jaffy" kisses him on the nose,
the baby laughs, and
Oh, what a sight!

What wild, un-abandoned joy,
such pure pleasure, when the baby laughs!
Blue eyes, so big, so blue...
They sparkle when the baby laughs!
Unrestrained squeals, when the baby laughs!

The baby laughs when you sing to him,
or talk to him, or smile at him.
I hug him close, and the baby laughs!
This son of mine, the happy child,
this loved soul, this part of me.
Oh, how I love him so...
Oh, what a sight, while the baby laughs!


~written for my son, now 10, when he was a baby