
A couple of funny stories from the last few weeks...
- On the way to the pumpkin patch, Katy Pery's "I Kissed @ Girl" song came on and Rita said, "Is this a girl or boy singing?". We said it was a girl. Her facial reaction was very funny - she was totally confused. And then she asked why would a girl want to kiss another girl? I think I said something about how they were just joking around and it's nice to kiss and hug other people.
- Rita has been interested about babies again. She asks me if I have (or had) a baby in my stomach. (Reason #567 for exercising.) I tell her that I don't/didn't want a baby in my stomach ... that we wanted to find a little girl in Russia to be our daughter and be part of our family. Rita also asks about our wedding, and she knows that she was four years old when we got married. She asks why we didn't know her when she was a baby, or when she was four years old. I told her that we had to get married before we could go to find her in Russia.
- Rita also asks about how a baby comes out during childbirth. She thought it was through the belly button. So I explained to her that there are three holes "down there" and explained the function of each ("one for pee, one for poo, and one for babies"). She wanted to check things out for herself because she didn't think she had one for a baby. I told her to hold off on the probing and that I would show her a picture (cartoon) on the internet the next day. She didn't remember the next day, but it did come up again late last week. So we had a brief anatomy session.
Luckily she hasn't asked about how the baby gets there in the first place!
The Katy Perry bit cracks me up! :)
Slugger wouldn't talk to me about stuff when he first moved in. But I've tried really hard to forge that type of relationship between us. Over the past few months I've noticed that he's gotten to be completely comfortable talking to me and has asked me some real zingers.
Thankfully neither has asked how the baby gets IN there in the first place! Not looking forward to THAT conversation, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Katya asks birds-and-bees questions all the time, but it's tricky to know how much to tell here. Primarily, because I'm worried about how it will sound when she repeats it all over school! lol. (Seems she has no filter at times!)
Nala
I did have to defer the "How does the Papa put the baby in the Mama's stomach?" question though. I couldn't think of an appropriate way to explain that to a 6 year old!
But really, one night they did ask me HOW does the, uh.... whatever get there and then... the phone rang and they forgot they asked!!! Whew!
While I don't want to be dishonest or evasive, I just don't think they need to know this at 7. Perhaps if we lived on a farm it naturally wouldn't be a big deal... but we don't.
do you know lori from ridgeback rescue? she's the one that sent me the event flier! i'd love to meet her too - she's currently fostering Butch who is a big bulky guy like Boomer was and is doing an awesome job trimming him up!