laughter

My baby girl laughed for the first time today. This is a great milestone in navajo tradition, celebrated with food, family and blessings. It is very bitter sweet though. It is just one more thing that my husband has missed out on in her little life. He missed her first cry, her fisrt bath, her first smile, her fisrts bables and now her first laugh. It is also hard because we are so far away from family and tradition. Not everyone will understand the importantance of a baby's first laugh. It breaks my heart that my husband has missed so much. I know that he is doing duty, serving his country, but it has come at a great sacrfice. There is only so much you can film and take pictures of. I mean he will never be able to hold his daughter as a newborn or play with his son when he was 2. Those things are forever taken from him.