Forget Martin Sexton. Move over, Mozart. Sorry, humpback whales. My new favorite sound on Earth is the sound of my 16-month-old daughter laughing hysterically.
Her giggles—I’d describe them as something between staccato chirps and cute cackles—make me smile from the inside, like nothing ever has. They’re contagious, too; when I hear her laugh, I can’t help [...]

As a one-time choir dork (and current “Gleek”), singing is a pretty major part of my life. Imagine my joy, then, when little L started “singing” along to Hawaiian music while we were playing in her room this morning.
Granted, she wasn’t singing with words—the girl’s vocabulary is limited at this point and she can’t actually [...]