Jokes

I think today was the first time Elena made a joke. She was putting on her shirt, and she went to put her head in the arm hole. "That's not right!" she says, while looking at me grinning, but also making sure I got the joke. She repeated this joke with the other holes on the shirt. What with the way she did it, the joke was actually quite funny.

A little later while playing with Elena's toys, I had her ducky which I was making quack. Quack quack quack quack quack quack. Quack? Quack quack. Elena brought over a bear. "Say hi!" she says. "Quack," I say. "No, say hi!" she says. "Quack, hi, quack, " I say. She laughed and gave me that look that says, "Haha funny joke silly dad."

There's some other way in which her communication seems more sophisticated today than yesterday, but I just can't quite put my finger on it.