Funny, funny.

Tonight Graysen told her first joke.

She watches Dora the explorer(which I'm not proud of), and she often pretends that she is Dora. So tonight we went out to eat, and while waiting for our food to arrive we "played" Dora. Graysen was Dora(the heroine), as usual. Noah was Boots(the sidekick), as usual. Brandon was Benny(the cow), as usual. And mommy was to be Swiper the Fox(the swiping villian), as usual.

So quickly upon commencement of the game, I swiped her napkin. This required that she yell out "Swiper no swiping, swiper no swiping!", at which point I return the napkin and reply, "Aw man, aw man!". This is a careful reenactment, seeing as she gets mad if you don't correctly portray the character. So it's funny and we laugh. Then Dad decides to do the Swiping(under the name Benny of course- theres no breaking character allowed), and he swipes the napkin. The rest follows the normal formula.

Now Boots(Noah) has been doing his own thing...eating his own napking(which Dave Gardner would say is southern for napkin, beating on the table, that sort of thing. But as Graysen turns to laugh at Daddy, he spies that the napkin has been left unguarded and swipes it quickly out from in front of her. To this Graysen looks at us and giggles, then replies, "Swiper, no Swiping!" And bursts into a fit of laughter...she realized for the fist time that she could be funny.

If you don't know anything about the Morgan family, I'll tell you this. Original sentences are a scarcity. Most Morgan dialogue consists of snippets from movies, books or old tv shows. Entire conversations can take place without anyone using "normal" dialogue. It's really odd, and apparently, it's genetic. Pin It