Scared Stiff

     My son laughed for the first time tonight...I was at Scouts. I was pretty bummed. So, when I came home I sat him on my lap and turned on a video of laughing babies to see if he would imitate the behavior, he didn't. So I looked up another video and he still didn't. Then my wife comes over and chooses another video and we watch it for awhile...and watch it...and then the baby's mouth and eyes go dark and it screams really loud! It scared me so badly! I yelled and turned it off as fast as I could and so of course my son starts screaming and my wife is wondering what the big deal is. Anyway, I'm still geeking out over this and it's three hours later but phew! it scared me half to death. It got me thinking about how context and mood can change everything. I was looking for happy laughing babies and I got a possessed one! It's a real shocker when that happens. Plus, I have this emotional attachment to a new baby so seeing one screaming and possessed really messes with your emotions. What is even funnier/interesting about this is that now my wife is watching laughing baby videos and it's driving me crazy because I think that any second now one is going to scream and scare the pants off me again.
     This is all very wimpy I know and I'm suppose to be a strong male but I'm not that tough. In reality I'm pretty reactive (obviously). Plus, there aren't too many more things scarier than possessed babies. In fact I was going to stick the link in here but I thought Dr. Coyne might watch it and go into pre-term labor.