"How do people who marry get kids that are similar to them?"
I continued to wash the dishes, hoping she might move on but knowing exactly what she was asking, something that has been dancing around for the past few months: why does Kate look so much like Dad when she came out of me?
It's true, they are 8 and I should probably address this. Eddy Scanlon told me the entire sordid story when I was in third grade, while jumping on the trampoline in our back yard. I didn't believe one word of what he was saying. Given that my children are now in third grade it's possible that I should step in, before their own brand of Eddy Scanlon takes over but we don't have a trampoline, we don't even have a backyard; I thought I had more time.
The truth is my children are in a classroom heavily weighted with boys, some of whom are almost two years older than they are. My time is running short but given that I giggle like a fourteen year old girl every time we drive past The Crafty Beaver hardware store, I was hoping for a few more years, time for my own maturity to kick in.
Mary continued, "Hmm, this might be hard....I think you'd have to show it. Maybe I could make a model?"Pass the play dough, we're going to the science fair.
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No trampoline and no backyard? I would have thought you would have been safe, too. ;)
We had a "birds and bees" discussion a couple of days ago, one of which actually teeters on *the birds and the bees*. "Mommy, why did God make carpenter bees?" and shortly thereafter, "When a robin lays an egg, where does the egg come from?"
I am answering as correctly as possible, to four-year old understanding...but some of these questions are beyond my grasp, too!
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