Teasing your children??

I would like to pose a question.  Is it ok to tease your children?  For me teasing is a way I show love, maybe I am deluding myself but I tease the ones I love.  Let me give you an example.  Last night my wife and I took our youngest for a ride to get a treat.  My youngest did the funniest thing, but that is beside the point and a story for another time.  We went and got an ice cream and then went to pick up our oldest from her friends house.  On the way to the friends house my wife tells me about the joke she played on Mercedes. 

The road that her friend lives on had just recently had a coat of oil sprayed on it.  I don't really understand why the city does this, it frustrates me because it gets all over the car, but what can I do.  My wife not wanting oil on her car pulled through a church parking lot which is just across the street from the friends house.  She has stopped directly across the freshly oiled street from the friends house.  At this point my wife tells Mercedes that she had better run across the street so she doesn't get stuck.  Mercedes get out of the car and sprints across the street.  I love so much that she is so innocent that she actually thought she would get stuck. 

When Mercedes got in the truck last night we all had a good laugh.  I think it is so important to be able to laugh at yourself and not to take things so serious.  It makes life a little more pleasant.

That is all