Who’s there? Banana. Banana, who? Knock, knock. Who’s there? Banana. Banana, who? Knock, knock. Who’s there? Banana. Banana, who? Knock, knock. Who’s there? Banana. Banana, who? Knock, knock. Who’s there? Orange. Orange, who? Orange you glad I didn’t say banana?
The toddler has discovered knock-knock jokes. It’s an adorable rite of passage for someone who’s still trying to develop language and cognition skills. She’s been walking around the house for days saying, “Knock, knock”. Nothing usually comes after the knock, knock except a whole lot of giggling from the toddler. She finds herself to be very amusing.
Then the knock-knock joke changed. Instead of repeating knock, knock over and over again she added orange: Knock, knock. Who’s there? Orange. Orange, who? Jessie will repeat that same part of the knock-knock joke over and over again laughing the entire time. I told her the way the joke goes with banana at the door and orange being the punch line. I don’t think she got the joke. She just found it amusing that Mommy was saying the word banana.
I learned the banana knock-knock joke when I was four or five. I was in the hospital after a bad accident. One of the gifts I got in the hospital was a blue stuffed dog. I named that dog Banana and I still have him.
Toddlers are funny and find simple things to be funny. I’ve been trying out different knock-knock jokes on her and the funniest part to her is knock-knock. She’ll sometimes say knock, knock, who? I know she’ll pick up on the point of knock-knock jokes. I know she’ll understand what the joke really is. Soon she’ll come home and tell me a lot of silly riddles that I remember from my childhood too. I am excited about it even though the riddles are awful.