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"Mommy I want a baby"

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 . . .

Full post as published by Butterflyfish on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).