Everybody's A Comedian

Well, maybe not my kids. Their delivery is awful and most of their jokes don't make any sense. For weeks Sophie's been telling knock-knock jokes and while her comedy styling has improved it is still lacking something. Let me give you some examples.


Sophie: Knock. Knock.
Me: Who's There?
Sophie: *giggling* funny. *giggling*

I think she was just seeing if she could get me to say something.

Sophie: Knock. Knock.
Me: Who's there?
Sophie: Orange
Me: Orange who?
Sophie: *giggling* funny *giggling*

Okay, we're closer to a joke here but again it's missing something.

Her current incarnation is as follows.
Sophie: Knock. Knock.
Me: Who's there?
Sophie: Boo. (this is promising)
Me: Boo who?
Sophie: *giggling* Orange! *giggling*

*sigh*

She loves this joke and told it at dinner about 35 times. Most of the time she directs her jokes to Genevieve because she's the only one patient enough to keep answering the door.

Turnip the Volume

Sophie had her 21-month check-up yesterday. She is 34-1/2" tall (90th percentile) and 27-5/8 pounds (75th percentile). Genevieve was a little bigger at this point but Sophie still gets a lot of she's-so-tall comments. I think Sophie looks taller because she is thinner than G at this age. Probably comes from the inability to sit still.

On a different note, our CSA share for the year started yesterday!!! I have been looking forward to fresh , "home-grown" produce since it stopped last year. Apparently our love of fresh produce has rubbed off on the kids. I was chopping some of the Japanese white salad turnips when Sophie started begging for some. I gave her a small piece and went back to chopping. She then began yelling, "MORE!" at me and was eating them faster than I could cut them into bite size pieces. To her credit they were pretty good; like a juicy, earthy apple. We almost finished the entire bunch. That's what most kids eat for dinner, right?