One of the best things about being a parent is having a front-row seat watching a little person develop a sense of humor. What Chiara finds funny is punctuated by an infectious, gleeful laugh. And recently, she has started to make jokes that crack her up, but puzzle the rest of us. Then of course, she says something inadvertently funny.

Last night at dinner, she declared, “I love tofu, Apa loves tofu, Oma loves tofu!”

Luke replied, “We’re a tofu family!”

Chiara (gleeful laughter): “You crack me up Apa.”

Luke: “No, you crack me up!”

Chiara: “i’m cracked!”