Want some Squirrel with that Mousse?

Megan has a wild imagination. Since she was about 15 months old: sitting in a shopping cart she handed me her empty hand and said, "Cookie?" I replied that I wasn't buying any cookies. She grinned, then pretended to pick up another one and offer it to me. Duh. I guess I just wasn't expecting a toddler that young to already start pretending!

Well, it didn't stop there. I have been entertained by many of her imaginative activities. In fact, this morning Megan was telling me about why she has so many snarls in her hair. A while back Megan asked me why I kept saying she had "rats nests" in her head. I explained that it was the knots in her hair, or the snarls. Somehow, rats was changed to mice, and she started telling me about how the mice would crawl into her hair at night and throw a party, leaving a big mess of snarls.

Well, this morning she changed the story:

Mom? I have lots of snarls in my hair, but the mice didn't come into my room. They actually crawled in and had a party on the ceiling and dropped marbles into my hair and that's what made the snarls.

Yeah, um, she does speak in more than 10-word sentences. She does have an active imagination, and she can synthesize information to come up with a creative solution. Nope, I don't think she's lacking in the creativity or imagination department...

By the way, the quote from the title of this post is from "Will & Grace" when Karen saw Grace 's hairdo.