I have already discussed how LP is well aware of how babies arrive in the world and I thought that would be enough to satisfy her curiosity for a while.
Alas, I was wrong.
It started a few weeks ago as we drove to the dry cleaner (why is it always when we are going to the dry cleaner?):
"Mom? How do babies get INTO your belly?"
"Magic." And then I changed the subject.
A few nights later as I got the girls dressed after their bath:
"Mom? How do babies get in your belly?"
"LP! Come here! I have something to show you," the Hoos called out from the other room, attempting to save me from the inevitable.
Finally, the other night, I relented.
"Mom? How do babies get in your belly?"
"Magic." (Dude, they say on cribs all the time 'this is where the magic happens' isn't that what they mean?!)
"Moooommmm."
"Okay, when a mommy and daddy love each other very much they make a baby."
"But HOW?!"
"Ummm, a little piece of daddy and a little piece of mommy smoosh together and multiply and that makes a baby."
"Oh," she said thoughtfully. I was thankful for the respite, until...
"When I get big I am going to smoosh against someone to make a baby."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
2 comments:
Oh my goodness! I have able (so far) to avoid that topic with my 5 year old! When I mention time before she was born like when we got married or went to this place she will ask "Where was I" I say, you weren't born yet. Then she says - I was in your tummy. Well if so that would be the world's longest pregnancy! But I tell her yes because even if she wasn't a fertilized egg she was still an egg in my ovary - so technically I am not lying!
priceless as usual.
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