The Facts of Life

In about 6 1/2 months we will be a family of 6. We will no longer fit in a car with only one backseat. However everyone will have someone to go on rides with when we got to Disneyland! Cami is REALLY hoping to even out the boy/girl ratio. Cade and Carter haven't asked too many questions about the pregnancy, they just aren't very interested in the details I guess. Cami on the other hand is completely fascinated with the whole thing. A few weeks ago as we were walking through the grocery store she asked me how babies get in the mommy's tummy. I told her they grow there. Then she wanted to know if they grow out of the food you eat. I told her no, they grow out of special eggs inside the mommy. "You have to swallow an egg and then it grows into a baby?" she asked me. "I hate eggs!" I had to tell her they weren't the same kinds of eggs you eat, they were very small special eggs that are inside the mommy's body that grow into a baby. That seemed to satisfy her curiosity. A little later she asked me how the mom gets the eggs inside her boy. I told her you are born with them. "Oh great, so I have eggs inside me!" she said. "And when I want to be a mom one will grow into a baby?" Hmm, yep, that's just how it works. Then when we were at Disneyland last week we passed twin little girls riding in a stroller. Cami got all excited that they were twins, just like her cousins Cason and Cael. Then she asks me how you get to be twins. I explained that twins means two babies that are born at the same time. She wanted to know how two babies could fit inside the mom's tummy. I told her they just squished in there. Wow, she said, that mom must have had a HUGE tummy! After thinking about it for a few minutes she announced, "Hey, so did that lady have 2 special eggs that grew into twins?" I'm sure the next 6 months will be filled with lots more questions and explanations, not to mention the conversations we will have after the baby is born! Gotta love it!