Kids are funny.  Most of the times not because they want to be, but because their very acts of discovering what this big blue marble is all about gives a chuckle to the big people around them.  At a certain developmental point though, they start flexing their capacity to make you laugh, as they completely adore the reaction.

Mr Bones was the minstrel character of old that told jokes like "How do you keep a dog from biting you on Monday?" "You remove his teeth on Sunday" Buh dum pah!

I'm watching Mr. Bones develop in my little man who is careening toward becoming a 3 year old.  He is QUITE the character.  Elmo and Mr. Noodles (for the uninititated, Elmo is the cute high pitched voiced red not scary monster on Sesame Street, Mr. Noodles is his foil) introduced Nick to misplaced objects and fall down humor.  The Doodlebops (stay uninitiated, they are an import from Canada that we should send back ASAP!)  demonstrated knock knock jokes.  And he's gotten a lot from jsut being himself.

We went thru a phase about this time last year where he was telling knock knock jokes...well different jokes, same punchline.  "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Snow" "Snow who?" "Snowbody but me!"  He'd cahnged the inbetween but it started with Knock KNocK and ended with "Snowbody but me" regardless of the filler stuff. 

He has several routines now, a falling down act, a spit-take act, a joke act, and his latest is calling people by a wrong name.  Oh this one throws him into hysterics...which thereby has us in tears.  His favorite is to call me "Daddy"  which is probably because I get so up in arms over it.  Tonight though he topped them all.

He got into the dress up clothes (we have a 5yrold dd....we've got barbies, princesses, dressup stuff, plus trains trucks and spiderman from stem to stern, ugh)! and he put on one of his sister's dresses.  Then he came out to the kitchen  to show his (not that) proud Daddy and Mommy....and proceeded to call them by the wrong names!  When we called him Princess and our lil girl Nicki though.....he was hysterical!!!  it was the best drag show we've ever had here.....oh first, only and best, but still.....

Watching kids develop into these amazing creatures who walk, talk, think, create, interact....it's all so fascinating, hilarious, and blessings filled!!