Humor

Benny perceived something I find very interesting yesterday. The dog was chasing the cat through the room, and he laughed uproariously, and then he explained to me.

Benny: It's funny for children when they see something they see in another life.
Me: Eh? What other life.
Benny: The life on TV.
Me: Eh?
Benny: I see a dog chasing a cat on TV and then it's funny when I see it again in this life. That makes it funny.

I think I understand what he meant.

The other child, the small girl-type child, also has something to contribute. She made up a joke where she asks for things out of books. It started with the lollipop on the L page of Dr. Seuss's ABC. She would stretch out her hand to the page and say, "Neh Hobbit?" Which is how she asks, "May I have it?" And Benny found that EXCRUTIATINGLY funny, which encouraged her even more, so now at least once a night she asks for something out of a book, with a sly I'm-so-clever smile, and we all laugh. This afternoon after her nap she was entertaining herself by asking for the orange stripe in her pants. Benny's standard answer, "You can't have something in a BOOK, Sadie!" :)