Happy New Year!

We haven't gone out on New Year's Eve in 8 years. This year was the same as usual: we ate Chinese food and did our own thing. I organized my office and finally roused myself to finish most of the after-Christmas cleaning. We let the boys stay up until midnight; they watched Cars and Star Wars and didn't start getting delirious until 11:30 or so. At that point I laid down on the couch with Surprise and had an interesting conversation:
S: "mommy. do cats have peanuts?" (a peanut is a boy's part)
Me: "yes, boy cats have peanuts."
S: "do geel cats have peanuts?"
Me: "no, just like all other girl animals, girl cats don't have peanuts."
S starts to get frustrated and stammers: "I just can't believe it! I can't believe geel cats don't have peanuts."
Me: "Well, they don't...why don't you believe it?"
S: "Because I never knew that befo."
Then he switches gears. Now he's staring at my face.
"Mommy, wads dis on yo cheek?"
"I don't know...skin?"
"No...all these wittle dots!"
"Er. I don't know."
"Wad ah da things awound yo eyes?"
"Um, eyelashes?"
"No, under heyah" He points under my eye.
"Dark circles? It's from being tired."
"No, the wines."
"Uh...wrinkles?"
"Wad ah the wed things in yo eyes?"
Now I'm getting depressed! "I guess my eyes are bloodshot. That's from being tired, too."
"Oh."
Thankfully, before he finds more flaws on my face, he starts talking about parts of the body, which eventually fades into a long story about how Spongebob once took a pipe out of his head and his brain fell out. Then the ball dropped! Whew!

Happy New Year!