Knock-Knock

We got home safely yesterday, and now we're recuperating and trying to catch up on laundry.

Just now we were sitting around the table eating dinner, and the girls were telling knock-knock jokes. AJ and M&M were telling jokes they'd read (a favorite is "orange you glad I didn't say banana?"). I told the "Amos . . . a mosquito just bit me" joke.

Then Baby E decided to start making up her own knock-knock jokes.

"Ock-ock," she said.
"Who's there?" we all replied.
"Amos"
"Amos who?"
"Amos bug!"

She kept going:

"Ock-ock"
"Who's there?"
"Duce"
"Juice who?"
(Pointing to her cup:) "Dis duce!"

"Ock-ock"
"Who's there?"
"Mommy"
"Mommy who?"
"Mommy duck!"

Of course, the other girls thought all of these were absolutely hilarious. DH and I were just amazed that a not-quite-two-year-old was actually making up knock-knock jokes. Her sense of humor is really emerging lately. She's starting to make a lot of jokes, along with playfully switching around phrases. One of her current favorites is to wheedlingly say, "Pease, pitty pitty?" (Please, pretty pretty?) That's rather hard to resist, and she knows it full well.

Then AJ and M&M followed suit with the knock-knock jokes.

M&M: "Knock-knock"
"Who's there?"
"Blanket"
"Blanket who?"
"Blanket blanket."

AJ: "Knock-knock"
"Who's there?"
"Marriage"
"Marriage who?"
"Marriage of Mommy and Daddy! (I was just looking over there at that picture of their wedding."

DH piped in: "Knock-knock"
"Who's there?"
"Airy"
"Airy who?"
"Are you done with dinner?"

"Knock knock"
"Who's there?"
"Tim"
"Tim who?"
"Time to get ready for bed."