Go-Go Mommy

The Big Question!

Well, the day has finally arrived. Wait, why am I saying "finally" when I should say that it has already arrived. No, no one is getting engaged or married. I'm talking about the big question from Poppy - the "birds and bees" and "I don't know what in the heck to tell her" question because I thought I had at least another year or two to go before this topic came up. After all, she's not even 4 years old yet!

So this was my Sunday morning:

Mommy, Poppy, and Sweet Pea head to Target for the Sunday morning run. Just as I pull into the parking spot, this is what I hear from my little love in the back seat:

Poppy: Mommy, how did I get in your tummy?

Me: [after a cough or two to clear my quickly constricting throat] What was that honey?
[Translation: I heard you the first time, I'm just hoping you change the question.]

Poppy: If I grew in your tummy, how did I get in there to grow?

Me: Well, uh, let's see, um...[beads of perspiration starting to gather] Well sweetheart, [don't blow it, don't blow it!] after mommy and daddy got married, we loved each other so much that we wanted to share our love with a baby and, uh, we asked God for a baby and he helped us [OMG, I'm blowing it!] by putting you in my tummy to grow.

Poppy: Silence. [She's either not buying it OR it's sinking in to the gray matter.]

Me: You know, Aunt M is a nurse, she'll know just how all the technical stuff works. Maybe we should ask her [as I'm dialing furiously on the cell phone].

After a quick debrief from me:

Aunt M: You're right. After mommies and daddies get married and when they are ready to have a baby. God gives them a special way to put the baby in the tummy so it will grow.

Poppy: Oh. Okay.

God, I love her!!

Thanks for the help Aunt M!

That's what I call "out of the box."

Poppy has done it again!

When I told her we had to wait until tomorrow to start wrapping our gifts because we needed tape from the store, she said; "Mommy, wait. I have the perfect idea! We can use my stickers!"

I just love the hearts, stars, and flowers. Poppy definitely started a new holiday tradition for the Go-Go household. Why use plain, old scotch tape when stickers look so cute?

Do you have a favorite holiday tip to share? We'd love to try it!

Call Mensa - This Girl ROCKS!

So I'm preparing dinner and Poppy, who has been busy playing in her room, rushes out with an armful of stuffed animals saying: "Mommy, Mommy, you have to come and see this!" So I turn down the heat under my turkey burgers (I've been known to burn a meal or two) and sit as directed at the dining table. Poppy then proceeds to line up the 6 or 7 stuffed animals she brought out while she explains: "Okay, so this goes here, then this one goes here..." until all of the stuffed animals are in a curved line like a backward "C". Then she lay down (proper English? I never get the laid, lay, lie correct. Does anyone remember the rules in a simplified version to share with me?), straight as an arrow, next to the curved line of animals and said: "Look mommy, it's the letter D!"

OMG, call Mensa! What brilliance, what creativity, what out of the box thinking! Is she going to be the next design/art/fashion visionary, or what?! Where do kids come up with this stuff?!

Of course, my first reaction is to take photos to share with the granparents on Ceiva (see below).

Next, I call all of the grandparents to share this fantastic moment. All was well until my mother-in-law reminded me that Poppy "probably saw it on Sesame Street." Then it all rushed back: the man who painted the "letter-of-the-day" everywhere he went (actually, wasn't he "Harry Bentley" from The Jeffersons?). Oh well, I guess the call to Mensa will be delayed until further notice.

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