Archive for October, 2008
My brother is almost exactly three years younger than me. If you do the math my mom got pregnant when I was two.
When I was was two I asked my dad where babies came from and he told me.
In great detail.
My mother was mortified that my father told me about sex when I was two, but I never remember being surprised by any of it. Now my mom thinks it was great that he told me when I was too young to be completely grossed out.
When my kids were two I told them about sex – and periods – a c-sections. They seemed to be okay with all of it.
Then I discovered the downside of explaining great life lessons to two year olds.
Ian completely forgot.
I forget a lot of things (just ask my husband) but I did not forget the talk. I was traumatized when I had to explain to them that the doctor cut them out of me even though it didn’t seem to bother them at all.
So two nights ago when Ian almost slammed the toilet seat down on his penis I didn’t think twice about telling him to be careful because he only got one penis and he needed it to pee and to make babies.
He told me only girls made babies.
This is when I found myself sitting on the bathroom floor explaining that while, yes, babies grew in women’s utereuses (uteri? You don’t often find yourself needing to pluralize uterus) it was necessary for a man to put his penis in a woman’s vagina to make a baby.
He said “Gross.”
And then he said “Gross, gross, gross!”
Two days passed.
This morning he was putting on his underpants. He must have been thinking about his penis because he said. “Did Daddy have to put his penis in your vagina before we were born?”
I said yes.
And he said “Gross. I’m never having babies.”
And I am just grateful that he left it at that.
For today at least.
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
8:30 am |
On Monday I went to do my duty as an American. I was going to vote early.
But alas, the place was packed. They said there was an hour and a half wait.
And I had the twins with me.
And they needed a nap.
It looks like I’ll be taking them to vote again on Tuesday. I’m scared.
Part of me is thrilled that so many people seem to be participating this year. We’ve had such crappy voter turn out in the past that it is really exciting to see so many people trying to vote early.
The other part of me is terrified that I will spend six hours in line at the polls on Tuesday.
Either way, I know it will be worth it.
Now, who has good ideas on how to keep two four year olds occupied for five hours while standing in a line? I only have on DS.
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
3:57 pm |
October 28, 2008 | Friends
Can you guys please go to this site and vote for Yodeling Goat Media?
I’ll be your best friend.
Plus then Mark will owe me and he will have to babysit for free.
Thanks!
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
8:31 am |
October 27, 2008 | PSA
If you have metal trivets that look like this
try really hard not to drop them on your toes, especially if you have bare feet. Trust me on this one. That crap hurts.
*whimper*
In related news, four of my toes are purple.
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
11:54 am |
This morning Claudia and I were talking about voting. I explained to her that if you were over 18 and a United States citizen you got to pick who you wanted to be your leader. I tried to simplify it (I don’t even think I could explain the electoral college if I wanted to) and I told her that whoever got the most votes would win.
To illustrate this point I did what any good mommy blogger would do – I Googled a picture of Barack Obama and John McCain.
I pointed at each man and said this is Barack Obama and this is John McCain. Then we looked at a different picture of them and I pointed them out again. Then we looked at another.
I asked Claudia if she could tell which one was which.
She pointed at the man on the left “This is Narack Ofama” (meh, close enough for a four year old) “and this is John McCain. You know how I can tell?”
I asked her how.
“They have different color hair.”
While I sit here and worry that there are Americans out there that won’t vote for a good man just because of the color of his skin I can be assured that at least one of the next generation of voters didn’t even notice the difference.
That gives me hope.
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
8:40 am |
