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February 21, 2005
sir abel
This past weekend the boys and I traveled up to Indiana with my mother to visit family. The trip was planned on a whim with the intention of escaping the home that we have been trapped in since all of the sickness began a couple of weeks ago. My mom also needed to spend time with my niece, Abigail, at her home in Indiana. Friday was mostly spent traveling--with three children four yrs. old and younger, this is no easy task. At the end of a six hour drive, we arrived in Greensburg.
Mom had agreed to take care of Abigail and her brother, Alex, Saturday evening as my brother worked. After napping at the hotel room, the boys and I joined Mom at the apartment to "help." A small apartment with five children (Aidan being the oldest) and two women with OCD (one being myself and the other, my mother) amounts to a bit of chaos, but there were a few moments to remember in the mix.
When we arrived, Mom was on the couch watching birth stories on the Discovery Health channel. I am always fascinated by watching or hearing about the birth of any child, so I sat down to watch the end of this program. Being concerned that the show may not be appropriate for Alex and Abby, I noticed when they left to play in another room. What I did not notice was that my own children were standing mere feet from an extremely large television screen watching the birth of twins. Once the babies were delivered, Abel looked to me and said, "I DO NOT want babies coming out of my bottom!" He seemed a bit traumatized but began playing with his cousins soon after. I thought that maybe the graphic images had left his mind as quickly as they had been introduced; however, this morning when he saw his dad for the first time since returning home, he shared specific details of the birth. Explaining the truth about reproduction to a three year old just doesn't seem like a good idea.
| By cooleys | 07:35 PM
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