First sort of semi giggle

Yesterday afternoon I took Oliver to his physical therapist. Yeah, Oliver has a physical therapist. Her name is Katrina over at On the Mend, On the Move here in Mesa. We already really like her a lot! Oliver has torticollis on his right SCM muscle (sternocleidomastoid). This is that really awesome-looking muscle that goes from just under your ear to your sternum and is really apparent in long-necked supermodels and buff guys like:

Gisele

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Temple of Doom

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
and, me

With that context, let me start over.

Yesterday afternoon I took Oliver to his physical therapist to work on his torticollis. The muscle is so tight that Oliver really favors looking to the left. . .all the time, which is resulting in a flat spot. Flat spots are good if you plan on sleeping on the floor all your life but Oliver isn't so, we're getting it fixed. Plus, we don't really want to cough up 6 grand for a helmet if we don't have to. This is the 2nd time we've gone and Oliver has been super good, even while Katrina pulls and stretched his neck up, down, sideways, and all around.

At one point, he was laying on his back and looking up at me and he started grinning and did for longer than he's ever done before. I picked him up when we were all done and he smiled again and got all excited and made a couple of laugh-like sounds while doing so. I'm actually an expert in determining laugh-like sounds in infants and in my professional opinion, I'm labeling this as Oliver's first official laugh.

Ha ha ha!