Oddities

I expected today to be fairly normal and happy, but instead we keep having oddities.

Me: "This is Dr. M's pen."
Amelia: "What do you do with it?"
Me: "It's a pen! You write with it!"

I also heard about a family with seven boys and one girl, and they had not only a toy guillotine but also a little man whose head came off and they'd practice decapitating him so the head would land in the basket. This story was prompted by discussion of Saint-Saen's "Walk to the Scaffold" in which you can hear the head bouncing, and that was prompted by the legend about three springs coming up where St. Paul was beheaded. MORBID!