"Mommy I want a baby"
CF: "Can you get me one?"
Excerpts from the first "where babies come from" conversation we've ever had with our son:
BS: Do you think we can get one at WalMart?
CF: No Papa! They don't have babies there. We have to go to the baby store.
* Bullshark was summarily banished from the conversation for bringing up storks. *
* After an explanation involving how Mommies grow babies in their tummies and Papas help put the baby there, and finally understanding it takes a long time to grow a baby and that Mommy doesn't have a baby yet but when she does, she'll let you know. *
CF: I will dream about babies tonight and I want a girl like baby [female cousin] or like my friend Jeremy who has a girl baby. I will call her.... I will call her.... you will tell me her name and I will call her that.
CF: I want you to have a baby. I want all the teachers at my pre-school to carry babies. I want everyone to have babies. I will be so nice to the babies.
CF: So girls carry babies and boys don't?
BFF: Right
CF: So I can't grow up and carry a baby? I want to carry a baby.
BFF: No honey, but you will help when you're big.
CF: So can I help the girls in my pre-school class have babies?
Bullshark's response to the whole thing: This is more pressure than from four grandparents combined.
As for me:
I am trying to decide whether or not to give the pre-school teacher a heads-up, or just wait to see how this conversation gets translated tomorrow . . .
9 little fish:
I was told, among other things, that I came from a Kmart. I was also adopted, so I maybe sort of believed it.
LOL! Just give it a few months. Pumpkinhead realized that just asking wasn't enough so he started laying on the guilt HARD. His latest tactics include telling his teachers that Mommy is having a baby and saving his new toys "for my baby brother or sister" instead of opening them. Because of course acting like it is happening will make it so. Oh the drama!
OH MY!
Pt Lawmom, that's aswesome.
If Clownfish starts pulling those stunts I will laugh my head off.
McPan -- I'd have never guessed KMart. You're more upscale... Target maybe? They don't sell diet Dr Pepper at Macys... :-)
Uh, I hope you told CF that he can't help his pre-school classmates have babies. You can't be encouraging such illicit pre-marital behavior. LOL
I like the wait-and-see approach . . . . see if he does something to the other little girls' belly buttons thinking it might help the process along.
What's up with little kids wanting kids of there own? Like, why do babies want dolls of other babies? This never made any sense to me...
-LawSchoolBlogger
lol, that's so cute. You have to remember this conversation so you can embarass him about it when he's 19.
That is really cute. I totally remember my mom telling me that you look for a baby and then one arrives, so I would try to sneak away from her at the grocery store and look around for the baby displays so that we could buy one. Kids are so crazy!
"So can I help the girls in my pre-school class have babies?"
(LOL! NO, not for another 20 years!)
Too cute!
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