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What is it about potty humor that just tickles the preschool set so much?

These days, Olivia is all about poop. She's constantly asking if she can poop on something. It's her way of deflecting any question or situation she doesn't want to get into.

I'll ask her what vegetable she'd like for dinner and she'll reply, "Can I poop on it?"

And then she'll giggle like that was the funniest thing ever spoken.

Even the mere mention of the toilet and the several mispronunciations that take place in our house, ie Tom's "toidy" and my "terlet" which I got from a woman I worked with about fifteen years ago who announced one day that she didn't like to microwave her hotdogs, she preferred them berled. Not in earl, though. We never did find out if she wrapped the leftover berled hotdgogs in aluminum ferl.

Anyway, tangent out of the way, Olivia will fall to the floor in laughter at the mention of the toilet.

Is it the age?

Alyssa does find the occasional fart joke to be mildly amusing but she tends to prefer violence humor over potty humor. She will laugh so hard she'll drool over Sam's antics on iCarly.

Olivia thinks that the human body is fascinatingly funny. She thinks farts are proof that God has a sense of humor.

She loves to burp like a frat boy after a six pack.

Yes, there is constant hilarity coursing through our home. Hilarity if you find poop, farts and burps hysterical.

Which, when a four year old is giggling uncontrollably, it's hard not to join her, even when she's giggling because she farted.