Knock-knock

My newest favorite thing Sam does right now is tell knock-knock jokes.

OK, she tries to tell them. It usually goes like this:

Sam (with a huge grin): Knock knock.

Me: Who's there?

Sam: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (scanning the stuff around her) ... table.

Me: Table who?

Sam: (silence for a second, then crazy giggling)

She doesn't know how to make them funny, which I, of course, find hysterical. I can tell her knock-knock jokes back, punchline included -- you know, "Orange you glad I didn't say banana?" -- and she laughs, but you can tell she doesn't really get it.

What I love is watching her sense of humor grow.

She also likes to pretend to be a robot. She holds her arms out to the sides, walks with her legs as straight as possible and says, "Beep beep. I am a robot." It's my job then to use the pretend remote control and push the "stop" and "go" buttons for her.

One day, she was being a robot and she said, "Beep beep. My batteries are dead."

I said, "Well, that's a shame, because if your batteries are dead, then the Sammy robot can't go anymore."

Her reply? "Beep beep. My batteries are fine now."

And she looked me straight in the eye and grinned. She was trying to be funny, trying to joke with me. It was adorable.

What's the cutest thing your kids do right now? What has your child said lately that made you laugh out loud?