Both the Captain and Gal Smiley have ever-changing and growing senses of humour. Some phases are pretty hilarious, but some fall flat.

I like the phase that the Gal is in right now. She likes to make up her own knock-knock jokes by looking around at stuff in the room, like this:

Gal: Knock knock!
Me: Who’s there?
Gal: Um…magazine!
Me: Magazine who?
Gal: Magazine…tablecloth! Ha ha ha ha!

She also likes to preface most of her daily activities by saying, “I have a little song about that.” For example, when brushing her teeth: “I have a little song about that…[tunelessly] ‘Brushing my teeth, brushing my teeth, brush brush!’ Like that.”

The Captain is also in an interesting humour phase right now that is sometimes funny, but more often annoying. He’s learned from school that funny = attention, and he’s pretty much in constant stand-up mode these days, which can really try our patience when we’re trying to get him to listen to or to eat or go to bed. One of his favourite pratfalls is to smack himself in the head, roll his eyes and stick out his tongue, then collapse to the floor. Not a big hit around here, as I do not enjoy seeing my kid get hit in the head even if it is of his own volition, but I suspect it goes over big with the JK crowd.

He also likes to do goofy things with words that he passes off as totally hilarious jokes. One of his more annoying habits is to replace a word any given sentence with the Wee One’s name, like this:

Gal: I want some juice from the fridge.
Captain: Hee hee hee…I want some juice from the WEE ONE, GET IT, GET IT????

Also he finds dropping the first letter of someone’s name to be screamingly funny, as in:

Sirmonkeypants: Captain, it’s time to get your jammies on.
Captain: ADDY! ADDY! Your name is ADDY!! GET IT, GET IT????

Oh, I’ve got something for you to GET, buddy.

He does occasionally crack me up with this schtick, though, which only encourages him. The other morning I was feeding the Wee One with the usual two spoons, one for her, and one for me. Hers was orange and mine was pink, and the Captain came running by chanting, “Orange Baby! Pink Mommy! Orange Baby! Pink Mommy!” and for some reason I lost it to the point where I spat out my juice.

Legends Of Comedy in the making, right here, oh yeah.