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If parents bragging on their kids bores you to tears…bail out of this thread while you can. 
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We had just given BabyMaeve™ her bath …she’s dry and we’re chasing her naked butt through the house. She shrieks with delight as we goose her butt…and then she stops.
She pulls on my wife’s sweatshirt…pulling her down the hallway. We wonder what’s going on. She pulls her to the bathroom entrance, then pushes my wife from behind into the bathroom.
She has mastered the art of pulling doors shut…so after making sure mrs beagledave is in the bathroom…she gets on her tippy toes and pulls the doorknob shut.
She then whips around (still buck naked) throws her arms up in the air and boldy proclaims “where is she?”.
As I almost fall on the floor in laughter…she reaches up…turns the door knob …opens the door and “shows me” mommy and then laughs hysterically herself.
We’ve never done this bit…so I have no idea how she figured out how to do this joke.
She got such a rise out of her first performance, she immediately does an encore…with an equally enthusiastic "where is she?"
BabyMaeve is 20 months old.
We’re in trouble.
Brilliant!
BabyMaeve sounds like a doll. What a lucky dad you are!
Yep, I’d say you’re in trouble! It is so much fun to watch children develop a sense of humor. I love that part, maybe more than anything else. I remember when my 12-year-old had just learned to walk very well. She’d be walking around the living room, then when she was sure she had my attention, she’d drop to her knees and start crawling, and just laugh and laugh! Obviously, although she was non-verbal, the joke was “look at me crawling like a little baby! I can walk, but I’m not! I’m crawling instead!” We referred to it as a “baby joke”!
Y’know, I’ve heard of kids developing slowly, but learning to walk at twelve?
dave, I concur. You’re in trouble.
Enjoy it, mate.
Aww, that’s sweet Dave. My daughter has always been able to make me laugh too, and kids at school are always saying how funny she is. Recently she started telling proper jokes, including this one:
Why did the banana go to the doctor’s?
Because he wasn’t peeling well…
OK, so it’s hardly Oscar Wilde, but she’s only four!
You know, Skeezix, when I first constructed that sentence, I thought that surely the average Doper would pick up on the fact that this was many years ago when she first learned to walk. Obviously, my mistake was in not considering slow-developing Dopers such as yourself:p I’m really just teasing. Please don’t take me seriously on this one.
I am not slow developing. I simply refuse to grow up. I tried it once, and decided it was no fun.
[sub]Four out of Five Dentists agree: Miscoding one’s post is a sign of slow-development.
:: d&r ::[/sub]