Jokes

When kids make up jokes, as a rule, they are not funny. I have heard close to a million made up jokes and they never make me laugh. Sometimes I have to force myself to smile. Other times I have to tell them to stop making up jokes because it is just too painful.

Every once in a while, Toby says something that is so strange, unexpected or funny that we can't help but to laugh out loud.

Today, Toby came home with his school pictures.

Picture day was not a small event for Toby. It was his first one and he wanted to look his best. I ironed the shirt he picked out the night before and hung it up in the laundry room. But when he came downstairs in the morning, he had carefully picked out a brown shirt with a stain on it. He insisted that he had to wear that shirt because he was not allowed to wear green. I tried to tell him that the ironed shirt that he had picked out for picture day didn't have any green on it (or stains for that matter), but he is quite headstrong. I thought it would be best to send Toby to school in a good mood on picture day, and the stained brown shirt was worn with pride.

So, when Toby came home with something special in his Note Tote, I was curious. The school photographers, Bernard Photo Image, gave us a series of twelve proofs of Toby sitting with various backgrounds. With a big smile on his face, Toby, handed the envelope with his pictures to Ian and said "Look Daddy, a whole class of Toby's".

For once, he made a joke that really made us laugh.