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GROAN

So lots to report today but will have to save the biggie for tomorrow …too sleepy tonight.  Today, I was talking with my 2 boys about when they were babies.  Owen, at 5 was having trouble understanding that he wasn’t around when Connor was a baby.  So I spelled it out clearly, Connor was a baby first (no Owen), then mommy/daddy decided we wanted another baby and Owen started growing in my belly, etc. 

So my supersmart 8 year old asks me if that’s all we really had to do….”just decide” we wanted a baby and it started growing?  “No really mom, what do you have to actually DO to have a baby…to make it start growing?”  GROAN. 

I guess I just wasn’t prepared.  So I tried, “its something that adults do”, “its something that comes when 2 people love each other”  and a few others.  Honestly, I think he just got bored of me putting him off and he stopped asking.  I’ll have to discuss with dh and come up with a real answer as its not the end of it, I’m sure. 

I’m not opposed to explaining it all to him (I think) , just that its such a monumental discussion, I’d like to talk to dh first before going ahead with it.