Things that make me laugh and things that make me smile

The laughing:

"What you doin' guys? You playin' catch with my binky?" Just a random statement out of nowhere as we were playing a little keep-away with the binky. We hadn't heard the "what you doin' guys?" question before but have heard it several times since :-)

"I pump milk out of your boobies, dada?" - said the other night with her milk bottle firmly planted on my "boob"

"It smells a little stinky ... like my diaper" - an observant Nugget while I was cooking mussels the other night. Yes, they were a bit stinky, but come on - don't make me think about pooh while eating them!

"what my do?!" or "what my doin'?" - said when she does something she thinks is funny or cool ... like spitting out her binky to make room for a sip of juice, knocking over some toys, jumping off a stump, doing a summersault, etc.

"you have a pee-nus? Henry have a pee-nus?" - the first question she asked me when I came home from work tonight ...

The smiling ...

"I luv you ... that make you feel strong, dada?" She hugs me at night while reading stories or brushing her teeth and tells me she loves me. The other night I told her it makes me feel special - she must have misunderstood "special" for "strong" and now she asks me this every night.

"I will miss you at work, dada"? Her way of saying she will miss me and asking if I will miss her.

"where my curls go?" - asked after I poured water over her head in the tub so we could shampoo her hair. She looked in the little tubby mirror and realized her curls had turned to flat wet hair and she was very upset. She's got a lot of tomboy in her but she still wants to be a girly girl!

Recycling

I get accused of recycling old material by my closest of friends and of course my wife. I always insist that my jokes and stories are new and will workshop some new bits with a small crowd before taking it to a bigger stage or a new audience. The truth is somewhere in between and what's the problem with getting some free laughs off tried and true material with a new audience or one that may not have heard it in a while and can appreciate it enough - kind of like watching an old sitcom that you haven't seen in a while. The jokes and zingers seem funny even though you know you have heard them before. Well, the Nugget is taking after her old man ... a couple of weeks ago mama showed me a video (attached). Take a gander and note the punchline - "I just drawrin' a bee-ird". We laughed so hard at this and the Nugget saw the reaction when we watched it with her so she will repeat "I just drawrin' a bee-ird" when she is looking for a good yuk out of everyone.