Saturday, February 13, 2010

Funny Kid

In which your humble narrator relates some of the nascent humor of Child #1.

I think my son told his first joke today. It wasn't a retold joke, either. It was original material. Maybe he has a pencil and paper in his crib and works on his act at night.

This evening he starts telling his mother, "It goes in a diaper! It goes in a diaper! to which Wife-a-roo, a born straight-man person asks, "What goes in a diaper?" At this point, Child #1 grins and says, "Ummm, maybe... a butt?" followed by uproarious giggling.

The joke was on top of another incident during an attempt to get him to be interested in the potty. I present to you a short play in one act:

Scene: The bathroom. Child #1 is preparing for his evening ablutions. He is sans pants. His mother, Wife-a-roo  is drawing his bath.

Wife-a-roo: Child #1, would you like to use the potty?
Child #1: I will use it.
Wife-a-roo: How about we take your diaper off and you sit on the potty?
Child #1: Yes. (Wife-a-roo removes diaper and Child #1 plants his butt on the little potty.
Wife-a-roo: Now you can pee in the potty. (Child #1 starts to get up) No wait, stay there for a minute... (Child #1 furrows his brow)... now think about peeing.
Child #1: (in what is best described as a sarcastic sing-song voice) Think about NOT peeing. (Child #1 leaps up and makes for the tub.)

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