Actually...

So this evening at bedtime the girls were doing their ritual chatting before closing their eyes, and as I lay next to Sonia in the dark on her bunk, I participated in the following conversation.

Madelin: So, what kind of animal am I again?

me: In the Chinese astrology book?

Madelin: Yeah.

me: a rabbit.

Madelin: But I am also a scorpion, right?

me: yeah. In the other astrology book, you are a scorpion. Funny combination - a scorpion-rabbit. And Sonia is a lion-lamb.***

Sonia: But actually I am a giraffe.

Madelin: and I am actually a pink fluffy flying Webkinz horse.

Sonia: Yeah, me too.

And the two pink fluffy flying Webkinz horses fell fast asleep, impervious to the stars and the planets swirling around above their sweet heads.

*** Strictly speaking Sonia is a sheep, but she was not at all pleased with this and so we told her she was a sweet little lamb. She liked that a little better.