Sweet Memories: Giggling in the Dark

Around the age of 4 months, Aidan and Alanna began sleeping in their own cribs that fit end-to-end in the small room in our apartment that served as their nursery and a guest room.  Because they had bumpers on the cribs, they couldn't see each other.  Weeks later, as we were learning to let them fall asleep on their own, we had to allow some crying to occur, and fortunately, it wasn't too painful a process.  We got used to listening to the crying on the monitor while we cleaned up the kitchen and settled down for the night.  But one night, we stopped amid the cleanup...they weren't screaming.  They were making noise, but it wasn't crying.  So we turned up the volume on the monitor only to hear two little babies giggling in their room.  We couldn't believe it, and we couldn't begin to figure out what was making them laugh. 

The next night, I placed our video camera in their room, so we could see just what was going on in there!  I was dying to know!  So before we left the room, I turned it on.  We went downstairs to finish cleaning up dinner, and the giggling resumed.  I couldn't wait to see just what was so funny!  After they fell asleep, I tiptoed into the room to retrieve the camcorder.  I played it back to find Alanna pushing up on her arms high enough that Aidan could see her over the bumper.  It was cracking him up!  Their first game of peekaboo!!  She kept lowering down and popping back up, and they just giggled away!  We couldn't believe it; it was so cute!