Today as we were driving home from Bug’s horse riding lessons, we had the following conversation:
Bug: (looking at a map of Florida, with a picture of a manatee on it) “Why are they called MAN-atees? They can’t all be MAN-atees. Some of them have to be WOMAN-atees, because if they were all boys they couldn’t make any more, right Mom?”
Me: “That’s true”
Bug: “Because the girls are the ones with the eggs, and the boys have the sperm, right?”
Me: “Yup”
** Keep in mind, Bug is our animal-obsessed child who has watched many nature videos, including animals mating, but has yet to learn about the real “birds and the bees” **
Bug: “So, how do people get the sperm to the egg without doing anything inappropriate?”
Me: (trying my best to stifle my laughter) “What would you consider inappropriate?”
Bug: “Jumping on each other like the elephants do. It would also be inappropriate to be bottom to bottom like the doggies.”
Me: “Well….people do have a special way of doing it, and you will learn about that when you are 8” (Pulling a number out of the air and hoping she won’t hold me to it if I change my mind later)
Bug: “Ok. I just wanted to make sure you would tell me sometime. It doesn’t have to be today”
I just love her! She’s known for a while that Daddy has the sperm, I had the egg, and together they made a baby. It was only a matter of time before she analyzed it and tried to figure out just how they came together. LOL
