A couple weeks ago, the kids and I were on our way home from work/daycare and Kaiden decided to ask me how babies come out of their mommy’s tummies.  I sat there for a second, silent, thinking “Shit, how am I going to answer this, she is only four!”  She continued:

KAIDEN:
“How did I get out of your tummy Mommy?”

ME:
“Well, I pushed and pushed and you finally just came out.” 

KAIDEN:
“Out where, Mommy?”

ME:
“Well, you came out of Mommy’s tootie”
Tootie = what Kaiden calls her business.

KAIDEN: *beginning to cry and get upset*
“That is disgusting mommy, don’t you EVER say that I came out of a tootie.  I can’t believe you would say that.  It is so disgusting!”

ME:
“Okay, sorry, but it’s the truth.”

So, since this conversation took place, Kaiden has brought up the subject a bazillion times, and each time she tries to word things differently so that I will tell her that babies are born some other way.  She has started in with God and Jesus creating everyone.  She has brought up the stork – EVERYTHING.  Each time we get right back to how a baby is really born and she says “Don’t even say that I came out of a tootie again mommy!”  Whenever we talk about it, she starts to gag (really) and becomes overwhelmed with disgust.  She refuses to believe that a baby would come out of a mommy that way.  It has become the funniest conversation that we have – on a daily basis!!!  Oh the power of truth!