Summer is feeling like summer today. Yesterday it felt like late fall. The weather has been so strange this year. So much rain, then all over the weather map from there.
This post is for my 3 year old daughter who is for some reason convinced that there is a puppy growing in her belly. Some of you may remember earlier this spring she had an imaginary rhinoceros friend who lived in her belly. It only ate “nuts and ho’s” (which was what she called her cheerio’s-like breakfast cereal we gave her). She had explained to us that it would eventually come out, that it was very big and would need a leash. As if we need any more animals living with us- 4 Homosapians manage to take up quite enough space and make plenty enough mess, thank you very much.
So flash forward 6 months and we have been experiencing quite the deluge of new babies into the homes of friends and neighbors (must be something to do with all the rain we have had early spring…)
Dunedin is working out this whole mystery of life thing. She would also love to have a puppy. You put these two thoughts together in a 3 year old mind and you get a conversation that went something like this:
“Mommy, when I grow up I am going to grow a puppy in my belly. Then it will come out and I will be able to walk it on a leash.”
“Oh, this is news! Usually puppies grow inside of dogs. And besides, I thought there was already a Rhino in there.”
“Yes, but the Rhino needs a friend.”
“ah…”
“The puppy will be called Little Sultan”
‘Big’ Sultan, a long haired Shepard, used to live next door to us and Dunedin loved him.
“Will Griffin be able to play with him too?”
“Griffin can grow up and have a puppy too.”
Concerned that Dunedin might be under the mistaken impression that men could, in fact, have puppies, I actually tried to get into anatomy by explaining that women are born with lots and lots of tiny eggs and when we grow up some of them can develop into babies. She responded…
“No, Mommy! People don’t lay eggs, they have live babies like mammals. Except for the platypus and echidnas and Robins. They lay eggs, Mommy.”
Duh! She wouldn’t have any more of my weird science lessons after that.
So this post is for Dunedin. Future mother of many animals, big and small but all requiring a leash.
Archive for August 14th, 2009
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