Jokes

As Riley's vocabulary builds, his sense of humor becomes more apparent. Like his mom, he enjoys playing the straight man, saying something funny in his normal cadence. Here are some recent exchanges:

Andy (wiped out from a long day): Daddy needs to go to bed.
Riley: Not me!

Andy: Riley, what do you want for dinner?
Riley: Maybe cherry pie?

Upon waking from a nap and discovering his diaper has fallen off, Riley cries hysterically. My mom replaces it and Riley immediately calms down. He laughs at himself, "Grandma, I cried like a baby!"

While we're visiting family, Andy tries to put Riley down for a nap, clearly an act of cruelty according to Rilz. As our favorite PhD insists Riley take a nap, Riley cries out, "Daddy is a BAD doctor!" 

Recently, Riley played his first practical joke of sorts. We were over at his friend Jack's house along with several other families. We told Riley we were leaving and then noticed he was suddenly missing. We looked everywhere for him, with the parent search party growing by the minute. Three or four minutes into our hunt, with eight adults on the trail, we hear noise coming from the closet of the closed and dark guest room. We open the closet door and when Riley spies our worried cohort he looks like a kid who just won a shopping spree at the candy store. Clearly satisfied that he had fooled us, he starts laughing like a hyena, laughing so hard he turns red in the face. Still grinning from ear to ear, Riley talks about his stunt all the way home: "I hid. You couldn't find me. You were scared!" When he wakes up the next morning, the first thing he declares from his crib is, "I played a joke!"

These are just the first glimpses of the boy's humor, and they are not particularly sophisticated so I'm not sure how well they translate in the written from. But they have been hilarious to experience. More to come!