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| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Mar 31 2006 : 7:52:15 PM
This was so hilarious today. Caitlyn, my 5 year old daughter, was asking me how baby horses are born. I told her they come out of a special opening. And then she said that then the farmer has to wipe the baby horse with a towel because they are wet and have stuff all over them. I said that yes they do. Then she asked, "How do mommy and daddy horses get married?" Which cracked me up. I said that well, they don't get married in a church, but that every year during the spring they get together to mate. At which point my 7 year old son, Joel, pipes up and says, yeah, I read about that--there are all types of mating, for example in my National Geographic magazine for kids it says that eagles mate. And I'm listening to him and wondering just what he is going to say. Caitlyn is all ears. She asks him, "How do they mate?" He says that the eagle mommy has an egg inside her and then it slides out into the nest and then the eagle mommy has to sit on it. At which point they start talking about the baby hatching and the daddy bringing it food and on they go talking about eagles and they forget all about the mommy and daddy horse, by which time I was thinking "Phew!" 
They were so cute the way that they matter-of-factly went on. It was just too funny!
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·.
Wife of Jonathan, Mother of Joel, Caitlyn, Elia |
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| Libbie |
Posted - Apr 01 2006 : 11:55:34 AM
That is SO cute! Don't you just love how little ones fit the world into categories that they already know - their ways of organizing life and what they are learning. I am just waiting until Will starts asking these things -- HOW am I going to answer?!?!?! He's already mentioned that it is so funny that the sheep go around "hugging" each other sometimes.....(the 'leapfrog' reminded me of that one!)
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Mar 31 2006 : 10:11:28 PM
My girls used to call our ram the "girl's" (the ewe's) husband. They weren't sure why they shared a husband, but didn't question that as much as why he was always trying to play leapfrog with them. Hmmmmmmmm. Just playful I guess..right??
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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