My children are strange

Elisabeth has been playing with her dolls today, which is rare.  The only reason she's playing with them is because Charlotte likes dolls, and Elisabeth is trying to be like Charlotte.  Elisabeth perceives that Charlotte gets more attention than she does.  Anyway, reason number one Elisabeth is strange - she named her baby Hi-Chou-Chou.  She's had HiChouChou for years now.  Today, HiChouchou got put to bed for his nap.  Reason number two Elisabeth is strange:  up until a few months ago, HiChouChou was a girl.  She magically became a boy.  Elisabeth is very adamant about the fact that HiChouChou used to be a girl, and now is a boy.

4 hrs later, I reminded Elisabeth that HiChouChou was still down for his nap.  She said he was in timeout for being bad.  I asked what he did - she said he "sneezed on her tongue."  Reason number 3.  Then, tonight before Elisabeth went to bed, she sang HiChouChou a lullaby.  It was sung very very sweetly and included lines such as, "now its time to go to sleep, some days we have timeouts because some days we're bad, today you were bad and you had a timeout and now you have to go to sleep."  It went on for a couple of minutes, and was mostly sung to the tune of rock-a-bye baby.  Reason number 4 Elisabeth is strange - her lullabies include narratives on timeouts.  Now, you might argue that perhaps reason number 4 reflects more on us as parents than Elisabeth as a strange one, but she doesn't really have very many timeouts...  

Charlotte is also strange.  She has a collection of dead stink bugs on the arm of the La-z-boy in her room - she has such a strange fascination with them.  She likes to pet the dead ones.    Now this one I will concede might reflect more on Charlotte's parents than on Charlotte, but I blame Doug.