Harrison Kim is expressionless. His cherubic cheeks remain stubbornly undimpled as he solemnly observes the scene before him – of four grown adults bopping about, attempting in vain to elicit a reaction. They coo, cluck, wave their hands and sing as Harrison looks on, seemingly unimpressed. And then the magic happens.
The corners of his Cupid’s bow mouth slowly upturn and the sound they’ve all been hoping for – the delicious burble of a baby’s chuckle – bursts forth.
“It’s so hard to make him laugh,” his delighted mother, Dami Im, says in triumph. “All day you can see me, Noah and my parents working so hard to make him smile. And when he does, we’re all like, ‘Ahhh!’ We are overjoyed. I feel like I am going to explode from so much joy just watching my baby smile.”
For Dami, 34, the journey to motherhood had been deliberately postponed. Not one to rush into things, she dated her now-husband Noah Kim for six years before tying the knot in 2012. “I was scared of being married, scared it would change everything, and people would treat me differently,” she recalls. “And people did treat me so
