Sometimes My Kids Are Strange

They have these odd little quirks:

My 7-year-old (almost 8, I'm reminded daily) wants me to tickle his back, his face, his arms, his feet every night before he goes to sleep. Not rub them soothingly. He wants me to tickle them lightly. It "helps him go to sleep". ?

My 10-year-old sings at the top of his lungs in the shower sometimes even though he can't hear himself when he's in there (his processors can't get wet and so he takes them off, rendering him completely deaf). In general, singing when you can't hear yourself isn't a great idea. In this case, his sweet off-key songs are music to my ears. But what prompts him to sing if he can't even hear it?

And my normally handsome, fine-looking 15-year-old routinely takes odd and silly pictures of himself which don't really resemble him, looking instead something like this:




There's no figuring them out sometimes.