Psych!
We're on baby watch for some of our best friends. Aunt V. is due later this month with a girl, but things are moving along and I now have an extra child seat in my car in case I'm the one taking the big sister to preschool with Niranjana. I even have "I'm the Big Sister" and "I'm the Big Cousin" shirts ready to go for the girls.
Niranjana hasn't asked the obvious questions about Aunt V.'s delicate condition, however, Niranjana continues to claim that she has babies in HER tummy. Oh my! Here is tonight's dinner conversation.
"I have 10 babies in my tummy," our 5-year-old declared. We discussed how many are girls and how many are boys, and it turns out she really has 20 babies in her tummy — 10 of each.
"How did they get there?" I ask.
"Guess what? A lady named Baby Gardanara put them there — she has nine letters in her name, just like me. She's so big, her head is in outer space and her hands reach to Jupiter. Her magic stick reaches to the last planet, Pluto. Can you believe that?"
She pauses for breath while I say, "No, I don't believe that."
"Trust me on this one," Niranjana counters. "Her hands came down from outer space and I swallowed the babies."
Then she counts as she swallows 10 times, demonstrating how the babies ended up in her tummy. Ah, innocence.
Sounds like this Gardanara lady is quite powerful. Hope she's there to make things go well for our future baby cousin.
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Cate's take
Cate HAS asked how babies get into tummies. We tried to explain about special cells in mommy and daddy coming together...now she wants special cells, too! When we explain only grown ups can do this, her argument is "But Niranjana has babies in HER tummy!"
Your daughter is nothing, if not convincing!
V.
PS: We were more frank about how the baby is going to get OUT of my tummy. She thinks we're crazy. So do I.
Aliens?
Hans -
Maybe the aliens did it.....
I love it!
I love that she says, "trust me on this one". Too funny!
Well I have a companion story for you. Last night (it was a long day and we were tired) Leif was sitting at the dinner table and says, "I have a baby in my tummy."
Ours isn't as entertaining - like I said, it was a long day. "No you don't," Hans says.
"Yeah huh," Leif says.
"Nope, you don't," Hans said.
"Well Niranjana has babies in her tummy," he says.
"No she doesn't," we say.
"Well she says she does!" Leif says, "so she says I can have babies in my tummy too!"
"Nope, she doesn't. And only adult women have babies in their tummies, not little girls or boys," I told him.
"That's NOT fair!" Leif said.
"Oh yeah it is!" Hans says.
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