"Laugh!"

So I recently decided to remind Ben of the one joke that he knows and have been prompting him to tell it to people every once in a while. The joke is "A 3-legged dog walks into a bar and says: I'm lookin' for the guy who shot my pa(w)" I know, horribly punny, but it's an easy one for him to remember.

It turns out that it's not always easy for others to understand, but Ben sure loves to tell it and people get a kick out of his enthusiasm. Then I tell them what the joke really was... Oh well.

The other night at the dinner table, Ben was singing a song from his Veggie Tales Christmas CD and it was just cracking us up. He took this as an opportunity to launch into his joke which cracked us up even more. But by the time he got finished telling it we had gotten control of ourselves and weren't laughing. This was confusing for Ben, so he looked at us for a couple of seconds and then said "Laugh!" Not demanding or whiny, just reminding us that we were supposed to laugh. Of course this sent us into gales of laughter again, so Ben got exactly what he wanted.