conversating

Bedtime conversations took a random turn tonight.

Roo's been curious about people's names and has been asking a lot of questions.

"What's Marmee's name? What's Mammaw's name?"

Roo's very clear on our immediate family's last name and that it ties us together. She assigns it to both of the dogs, as well. She, now, picks up on the same-last-name patterns from my side of the family and J's. She likes hearing the middle names and I'll also tack on maiden names to help her make sense of the connections. In addition, she's figuring out boys and girls and how to use 'he' and 'she' and 'him' and 'her'.

But, somewhere along the verbal path, things got all confused.

She named a cousin and stated that he was a girl. And just couldn't even be convinced otherwise.

Next, she went back through the family tree and added my maiden name to everyone else's names and wrapped it all up by explaining they all lived in Africa now.

Meanwhile, Em was prancing about, naked as a jay bird, but for a Nannie Blanket cape, monologuing. "I not kiss a frog! Ewwwwww! Blech!" Then, she told me she was a fancy lady and proceded to rip off the blanket and hollar, "TaDa!"

Things just keep getting stranger around here.