On our way home from the kids getting some shots, we crossed over a train track.
EJ: Mom, we have NEVER seen a train on the track.
Me: You know what? On the night you were born, Dad and I were on the way to the hospital and we got stopped by a train on that track. We thought we might have you in the car.
EJ: (thoughtful silence) Mom, how do babies get out of the belly?
Me: (trying not to wreck car... not really prepared for this question and all the roads it might lead down...) Well, there are several ways a baby can be born.
EJ: How did Gracie and me get out?
Me: (crap... sigh) You came out through my vagina.
EJ: Gracie has a vagina!
Me: Yes, yes she does.
EJ: WOW! Did you vagina EXPLODE?
Me: you don't know the half of it kid!) Not really.
EJ: Oh. (thoughtful silence) What happened if you needed to pee?
Me: (really? that's the follow up question? let me pull out my Mister Goodbody outfit.) I don't pee out of my vagina.
EJ: Where do you pee from?
Me: My urethra.
EJ: Oh. Where does Gracie pee from?
Me: Her urethra.
EJ: Oh. I pee out of my peanut.
Me: yup.
And that was the end of that. I'm SO glad the "Where do babies come from?" question wasn't a follow up. I also hope that he doesn't decide that kindergarten is the place he should spout out his new knowledge. I was pretty proud of myself for not loosing my cool and just answered the question as well as I could.
2 comments:
hahahahaha!!! Love it!
Awesome story.
I have birthing pictures of when Kai was born and well, he happened to find the album at my mom's and came up with the "assumption" that he came out of my butt. Well, I didn't like that term and it went from butt to tummy. I haven't named out the body parts and I have thought about it, but Kai does not know how to "filter", so I fear he will go around talking about a penis and vagina. Love the fact that you pee through your urethra.
<3
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