Word play

J has been chewing on words lately, what with the usual 6-year-old development of both reading, and the ability to spell based on knowledge of phonics. Yes, yes, we get all the crazy spellings in her love notes and play announcements. You can always tell the words she didn't ask for help with. "Bast friends forever!" or "Daddy, it's good youer home!"

There has been a convergence between this consideration of words, and her new-found humor. Have you seen this book? Or how about this one? Homophones as word play makes her laugh OUT LOUD. Who knew? And here I thought she only laughed at people falling down stairs.

Yesterday while we were out riding around, she tried to ping us with her own brand of word play. "Daddy, today is SUN-DAY (snickering because she knew it was really Saturday - she'd confuse the old man yet!). Get it? SUN. DAY. Because it's sunny? GET IT?" Her delight knew no bounds, even as JBL assured her he did in fact get it.

She went on to try permutations of Saturday, and other common words. But when she settled on 'see the waffle waffle' it was my turn to laugh out loud. "Wait, what? What does that kind of waffle mean?" On explaining it to her, we all shared a laugh.

So maybe this is Family Fun only a parent could appreciate, but with her word play, J made my day...

UPDATED: More funny stuff - laying in bed, doing prayers-and-songs last night, J interrupts me to point out her unicorn puppet. It's draped over the side of a box she has made into a car. The puppet's opening (along with a tail and one back foot) are facing us. J exclaims, "Momma! Look at Unicorn's hole! It's a hole that, strangely, it doesn't bleed from!" I swear, I can't make this stuff up.