No, the boys have not asked me the magic question yet, but I can feel it coming any day. Nate and I have been playing a RPG (Role Play Game) on the computer about a zoo. We get to place animals in the zoo together and eventually baby animals are born. Nate has learned that there must be a boy animal and a girl animal and they "mate." So far, no questions for the definition of mate. What will I say? He is WAAY too young for the whole answer. His naivete and youth was emphasized for me yesterday during a silly conversation with his brother. It went something like this:
Nate: "Jacob, is Ducky Dino a girl or boy?" (Ducky Dino is Jacob's Lovey)
Jacob: "Ducky Dino is a tyrannosaurus Rex."
Nate: "But is he a girl T-Rex or a boy T-rex?"
Me: "Nate, I don't think Jacob knows the difference between boys & girls yet." (yet strangely, he knows the difference between a T-rex and an Ankylosaurus)
Nate: ponders this for a long second as if he understood the responsibility of answering one of life's more complex problems to his baby brother, and says, "Jacob, girls have (insert long pause Nate thinking deeply, me waiting with bated breath) ponytails. Boys don't. So, is Ducky Dino a girl or a boy?"
Jacob: "He's a T-Rex!"
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Hey, Linda. I don't know you, but I was leafing through the blogs and came upon yours - which caught my eye since I live in the DC area and am mom of three little boys myself - two toddlers and one baby (my baby is named Nate - like your older one). My oldest will start kindergarten this fall.
Anyhow, you mentioned you loved comments, so I figured I'd reach out through cyberspace to say hello, nice blog, and I totally laughed about some of your stories (sayings, birds & bees, etc.). When I was pregnant w/Nate, my first son, age 4 at the time, kept asking me how the baby was going to get OUT of my tummy. Well, I hadn't done the C-section thing, so that was kind of hard to explain - especially since he wanted to see where the baby would be getting out (oops!) - which of course didn't happen. They're curious - which is good.
Anyhow, nice to read your blog & best of luck to you & your kids!
~ Andrea
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