I nose, I know.
It starts with a “What’s your name?” then, “What is this?” and finally “What am I holding?” then the punchline, “Daddy nose nothing!!” which he says giggling uncontrollably. My youngest had been going through this routine for a few months now and I’ve dutifully been shocked at this outrageous slur. Until yesterday, when he repeated the punchline “Daddy nose nothing… Daddy KNOWS nothing!!” with a wiggling of his eyebrows to tell me he had realised, that he finally understood it and wanted to share his revelation. He understood the joke! It is a rare privilege to actually seeing a spark going off in someone’s brain. I felt a surge of pride in this and saw a whole new world of joke telling opening up to him. It was a short-lived hope as the next morning brought this classic, “What do you get if you cross a cat and a bunny? A carrot!”