Funny and sad....

This morning and I was getting the kids off to school (such a blessing after a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG spring break-seriously- a break for who??) I was in a rush and on the verge of a panic attack.

My daughter was on the potty while I tried to hurry her along. She had her hand up her shirt, and was giggling. When I looked at her weird she said "When I touch my nene's (boobies) it tickles!!!"

I told her to stop, and hurry up and go potty.

Then she did it again. "We may have a problem..." I thought to myself.

Lately she is so obsessed with...parts.

Then she asked me "Boys have pee pees, and girls have flowers. Right mama?! Right??!" I swear lately she asks this of me once a day. Almost like "Just so we're C-L-E-A-R.....Boys have __________ and ..."

(I could just imagine the things she was sharing at school, or starting to notice for that matter in a house filled with 3 boys)

I'm gonna handle that issue as a parent with "Ignorance is bliss".

Just sayin'.

as for SAD things, while watching the movie "Up" my oldest son asked me "why do some people not have babies and some people have babies but don't WANT them?"

Whoa-deep.

So I thought a moment and told him the truth:

"The people that can't, their bodies won't let them and for the ones that have them and don't want them? They give them away."

"But w-h-y don't they want them?" as if he could not quite understand how this was possible.

Ok, a bit harsh but true right? I thought a bit harder about how to explain to him how the world works, unplanned/complicated pregnancies/situations and settled for:

"But", I told him, "we were lucky to have THREE babies! And? Those people that give those babies away, sometimes they don't have the money to take care of them, or they don't have help. So then the people that can't have babies adopt those babies."

"That's so sad" he said. I agreed. Very sad, very complicated, very hard indeed.

He still had a dark cloud over his face like as was taking it all in.

Oy vey! I think I did pretty good on my feet- truthful but not brutal. Not too botched up, right?!

(Note to self-always be prepared for IMPORTANT big kid questions, you never know when they will be sprung on you)

As for rocket man, he is screaming in his crib (as I type this) after trying to hit his brother AND sister, being a crabby crabcakes, and desperately needing a nap. He is talking constantly in his jibber jabberish way and I can just imagine the things THAT kid is saying to me...

Another day in mommy-dom I guess.



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