She Wants to Know WHAT?

The Queen seems to be on a quest for information, and is pursuing a whole raft of misinformation which figures in her very active imagination in the games she plays, and for which she recruits her unsuspecting brother and parents.

Tonight, she told her father that he needed to play one more game before bed. In this game, they were to "lay raccoon eggs." When she says "lay," she really means to sit on and hatch. She told her father the following:
"You need to hatch lots of eggs because you have a great big butt."

She was a bit confused as to why we both fell over laughing. (And for the record, there is nothing wrong at all about the Mountain Man's posterior.)
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The next day I was a bit horror-stricken to overhear the following:
"How did I get out of Mommy's belly when I was a baby?"
"Maybe you'd better let your mother explain that to you."

blatant coward

"Mommy, how did I get out of your belly when I was a baby?"

enter blatant coward #2

"They made a cut in my belly and reached in and pulled you out, then they sewed me back up as good as new."

What? It's the TRUTH!!!! (Well, except for the "good as new" part.) Thank God for the C-section.
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She's also becoming quite the artist. She decided to do a project the other day. She found a foam star, traced around it onto paper, cut out the tracing, glued it on another piece of paper and decorated it with glitter paint. She did all of this, including coming up with the idea, all by herself.

And here's what she did with the original star (she is learning that markers don't work terribly well on tape).
At Storytime the other day they read a book about fall leaves and Miss J had a bunch of colorful leaves for the children to use to make pictures. The Queen got a huge leaf and used beads to make a face on it, with smaller leaves for hair. (DeBoy picked out several pretty leaves to put on the page, which is the most participation he's offered for that sort of thing.) (And can I just say glue dots may be the greatest things ever invented?)
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DeBoy has also taken to "reading" the books from our shelves. The other day he got out ALL the Harry Potter books. Of course, I missed that with the camera. But I caught him putting them away. It was bit of a struggle given that the shelf is at his face level and those books weigh almost as much as he does. He put one back, looked at it for a minute as compared with the others, then proclaimed, "No, no, no, it's upside down." Which it was.After he got done with that he pulled out a collection of plays by Sam Shepard.
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The Christmas cactus is still blooming.

I asked the cashier in Walmart last night how soon he would get tired of hearing the Christmas music.
"Three weeks ago."
Remember those people when you go to the store.