Buried Treasure

Chris came home some time ago to a huge hole dug in our backyard. Now, the history of our backyard is important here....we've been trying to make grass grow since we built the house. The size of the hole was big enough for Chris to crawl into and sit down. This is the scene that followed: 

Chris (looking out the back window): "Baaabee!! Why is there a hole in our backyard?!?"

Me: "What? I don't know."

Chris: "Was someone in our backyard?!"

Me: "No, not that I know of...."

Chris opens the back door and walks outside....his yard shovel is laying next to the hole. A few minutes later me, Chloe, and Ava join him. With all four of us standing around looking down at the hole, I notice the girls making eyes at one another...almost as if to say, "we aren't saying anything..." 

Me: "Girls, do you know about this hole?!" 

Ava: silent, looks at Chloe....Chloe shakes her head

Chris: "okay girls...what happened"

Chloe (with an extreme sense of urgency and speed in her voice): "Before you get mad, there might be treasure down there and we won't know unless we look for it" 

Ava: "We were playing pirates" 

Chloe: "Or, or, or, there could be dinosaur bones down there. Mama! How will know unless we look?!" 

Chris: "So you took my yard shovel and dug a hole in the backyard, to look for buried treasure or dinosaur bones" 

Chloe & Ava: "Yep, but we didn't find any" 

Ava: "Yeah, and then we got tired so we just came inside." 

Me: laughing hysterically

One day...when these two girls win the nobel peace prize for some extraordinary discovery, they will totally say it all started looking for buried treasure and dinosaur bones in the backyard. 

And that daddy helped them fill in the hole they dug. 

Conversations with Chloe

Sometime ago, while riding in the car just me and Chloe, Chloe popped the question. Mommy, how do babies get in your tummy? She wasn't done...I mean, do you just pray and ask God and then he just puts a baby in your tummy, like magic? 


I wanted to throw up. Acting like this is a normal, everyday question I showed zero fear...No babe, it takes a man and a woman to make a baby....


Yeah Mommy, I know that. So do you just pray together? Does God put the baby in your tummy while your asleep? 


Okay...so this has conversation has the potential of confusing her for a lifetime. I had to bite the bullet...and just do it. (no pun intended) Practicing my "I am not shocked, this is a normal-part-of-growing-up question face".....

Me: No, not exactly, God designed our bodies to fit together to make a baby. 
Chloe: umm...what parts exactly? 
Me: well, your private parts....
Chloe: She interrupted me....okay, that's enough. That sounds gross and complicated. (I thought..actually, it can be...)


That was it. She moved on. Thank God!

Yesterday, while cleaning the playroom she revisited the conversation simultaneously asking questions and working it out in her mind.....Mommy, how does it work to make a baby? If it takes a husband and wife to make a baby, how come I have friends that only have a mommy? How did their mommy make them? And Mommy...you just fit together and then you make a baby--so mommy's and daddy say I want a baby and that's what they do? So is that what you and daddy did to make me and Ava? You only did that twice right? 


I am pretty sure I stopped breathing.

Me: um, well babe...you asked a lot of questions, let's see if we can answer each of them....
Chloe: Mommy? 
Me: Yes, love? (inside I was thinking: act normal, act normal, act normal)
Chloe: How come Pluto isn't a planet anymore? 



Okay parents, what conversations have you had with your kids that have stopped you in your tracks? I would love to know how you answered these questions!