3-year-old humor
Eve told her first joke yesterday. She prefaced the telling of said joke by saying "I have a joke I'd like to share." Where do they learn to talk like that? Anyway, here was the joke:
Eve: How does a puppy walk with no feet?
Me: How?
Eve: Cuz it can't move!
Insert much hysterical laughter from all three girls. We were in the car on the way to the store, and this joke was followed by many others with a similar format.
Julia: How does a hippo jump in the water without jumping?
Me: How?
Julia: Cuz they have to stay in the air!
Eve: How do bugs eat with no mouth?
Me: How?
Eve: Cuz they can't even know that they're hungry!
Lily told one too but I couldn't really understand her because she was laughing so hard. All 3 of them were just completely cracking each other up. I'm afraid they come by their comedic abilities (or lack thereof) naturally. My family loves to talk about how my cousin Katie and I used to sit next to each other in our high chairs and tell knock-knock jokes that went something like this:
Katie: Knock, knock!
Me: Who's there?
Katie: Peanut butter!
(Hysterical laughter)
I am just grateful that their jokes don't consist of liberal use of the words "poop" and "butt." Yet.
Comments
How come the worm went across the street real real fast?
Why?
Because he just did!
Terrific.
Does it make you think how little ones hear and interpret us adults?
Kids, in the beginning and middle stages of figuring out language and speech behavior have a whole LOT of nonsense that they have to deal with. How much of what WE say do you think they can understand? Not much, but a little more every day. So most of their world is a world in which they hear nonsense from adults, and they are supposed to make sense of it.
What a hilarious process!
My sister was here yesterday and her Trevor wanted to play games. My son proposed a board game but that was not what Trevor thought was a "real game". So I opened up the laptop and put on some games. He pressed keys and got into it.
His mom said, "Trevor doesn't care about the goals of the game, he just likes the action". Trevor (multitasking like a cognitive monster) replied - without a pause in his clicking play - "Mom, there aren't any goals, just gold coins".
I think those jokes are absolutely hilarious! I'm pretty sure that if I had heard them, I probably would have been laughing just as hard. I like the bugs/mouth/eating joke. Nice of Eve (who eats practically nothing) to come up with a food joke. Be warned--I am coming to visit the second after I graduate! I want to hear these in person.