Can't shut off

Eliot needed some company while dropping off to sleep tonight, and is still chattering away. "Pies.. what is that? It's a Spanish word. Maybe it's a knee? If you put an "O" on the end, it makes Pesto! A "c" at the end, Pestoc. "C" can sound like "s". TAL-A-RI-CO, Tallarico, that's what it says on that book [the author's name]. At the grocery store today we saw a little kind of Christmas tree, maybe they were a kid's one? Does a mouse drag its tail on the ground? Or does it hold it like this?"