A Punny RePost

I am stealing one of my status updates from Facebook because I am being snotty and irrational. Zachary is the KING of unintentional puns and each one he drops makes me laugh out loud. I learned this appreciation for word play from Andrew who is the KING of intentional puns.

I have also read that if you have to point out a pun then the pun loses it punch and humor. I am notorious for putting a "(HA!)" after my puns which to pure pun appreciators really does detract from its funny / clever appeal.

So last Thursday Zachary had a beautiful pun moment and I was dying to share his inadvertent cleverness. So what do I do??? I post it on Facebook and I avoid putting my standard (HA!) after it to keep the pun true.

The comments that were posted in response were more about his actions and naptime stories rather than the hilarity of his pun causing my irrational witchy unnecessary indignance. Instead of appreciating the sweet remarks friends and family made I am stomping my foot saying but isn't his PUN funny??? I think my attitude takes more away from the pun than if I had put a little (HA!) next to it. Or perhaps it is not nearly as funny as I, Zachary's biased mom, think:

This is for Uncle Andrew -- Tonight at Kindergarten Orientation we learned that they do not take naps. Zachary stands up and throws his fist in the air and says "YES! I am so tired of naps!"

No -- it is definitely funny. So I will make light of the situation and let those that don't catch his word play stay in the dark and let those that enjoy his unintentional cleverness enjoy the brilliance. (HA!)

Mommy Math

Zachary says to me tonight "Mom I love you so much" and I respond with a "Zachary I love you so much there is no number high enough to count how much I love you."

He laughed and said "How much Mom - like a hundred?" and I told him "more like a million times a million times a million billion gazillion."

He stopped laughing and made his serious face to say "that is definitely more than a hundred."