Facts of Life

We've been hooked on this topic lately and the conversations have been so hysterical to me that I thought I'd share with his grandparents (and any other unsuspecting readers):

On Monday Will figured out in his mind that his dad will probably die someday. He already figured that people don't like to die (or at least most of them don't) and he has already determined that he does not want to die. He hopes he lives to be an old man before his "lifetime" is over. But he did announce in the car to me that when his dad dies he wants to get a new baby daddy (notice that there is no mention of a baby mommy). I explained that likely when his dad dies he is going to have his own wife or husband and he will have children of his own. He thought for a minute and then proclaimed that he is definitely going to find a girl who will be a woman who will be a "life" (wife) and then he will ask her if she wants to have babies. Then he said that he also thinks he wants a husband too just like Wayne and David (our next door neighbors). Then he added that he would like Wayne and David to live with him too. He said that he does not want to be alone when we die so he wants to have all these people live with him in his house. He tacked on at the very end that maybe, just maybe, he would invite his grandparents to live with him too.

Then the icing on the facts of life and death cake was tonight when he came home from a playdate at George's house with seven of his friends and their baby siblings, etc. This evening he asked me if he could have a baby brother or sister like his friends. I told him that we'll have to talk with dad to see if he would like to add a baby to our family. I reminded him that you need a husband and a wife to make a baby. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Yeah, but I can help too. I can put my penis inside your vagina." I laughed and told him that he is right about how babies are made but that he isn't old enough yet for sperm to come out of his penis. When he is a man then he can help to make babies. He said, "Well, we better talk to dad."

Happy Easter

This is a craft that Will made at school for Easter.

Happy Birthday Paul

By the way... he is 40 today. We celebrated the occasion with a gluten free, dairy free, nut free Blueberry Crumble Cake!

Easter Egg Hunt

Today was the Annual MonkeyPEPpers Easter Egg Hunt that we do with our mom's group. The group has definitely expanded this year with all the siblings. This year Daley and Jack joined in the fun with Greta, Luke, and Aniela gearing up for next year.

Lifetimes

Will has entered into a philosopher's dream discussion as he starts to question and wonder about death. And how poignant that it was when he was with his dad that he first started the discussion. I think he started by wishing he could be an adult. Somehow this morphed into a discussion about death. I'll have to ask Paul for a recap but it really shook him up. I think for Paul that this was a pivitol moment in parenthood when he realized that Will would experience the death of someone that he loves someday and how hard that would be for him.

So somewhere in these weeks I pulled out my trusty children's book about death... everything has a lifetime, etc... and read it to Will. We talked with him when things came up as we read it and every once in awhile we can tell that he is still milling things over because he'll come up with yet another question. Apparently tonight he asked his dad about whether children die. Then he asked whether adults die and when exactly. He had his dad count to twenty so that he could get sense for how long that might be until he is 20 and then he had him count to 70 and 80 or so to get a sense for how long it might be for someone to live and die a more complete lifetime. He also said something about how it seems that people would not like to die. What next?

On a lighter note, I yelled at Will recently. I know I shouldn't have done it and believe me, it was fully warranted because he was being a complete stinker. I find it interesting that Paul has never yelled or even had the slightest inclination to yell. Obviously we can see here who is the better parent. But anyway, since I yelled Will has been informing us both that the minute he sees a police officer he is going to tell him that I yelled at him. He is absolutely shocked that I would do something like this and is convinced that I'm going to get a citation. The funny thing is that he says all this with such conviction that I really am concerned should we ever cross paths with the police.

Dyeing Easter Eggs

I didn't realize how quickly Easter is coming. Today since we were home sick with colds we started our egg coloring.