Stuff Linnea Does, or "Whoa, WHAT?!"

[ailbhe]

She gave me an old CBeebies magazine she'd been playing with, and we cut out a Snap game, and I glued the relevant parts (matching backs so no-one can cheat, see?) together and trimmed it all up and handed her the finished cards one pair at a time.

"Oh, Spud!" she cried. "And another Spud! That's for the other twin."

"The what?"

"The other twin."

"What twins are these?"

"The twins you a-going to have."

"Er, I'm not having twins any time soon."

(Disappointed) "Oh." (Cheerier) "Maybe tomorrow you can grow twins!"

[later]

"When you have two bumps on your tummy you will have twins."

I've tried to explain that IF we have another baby we can't make it be twins just to please her. She's not at all convinced. I think I should have tried for the Gift From God or the Stork strategy. But, since recently I had occasion to say "No, Linnea, she's a person, not a toy!" and was met with "She's not a person, she's a BABY," perhaps I'd better stick with facts.

Comments

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

Mine both know that babies grow in their mummmy's tummys. Neither has yet asked how they get in there. Kate knows that mums go into hospital & the doctor takes the baby out & mummy has a scar to prove it. I'm not telling her any more until she asks.

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Hee!

We've had O counting all the people in the room, my mother saying, "And Fiachra, don't forget," and O retorting, "No - he's too small to be a person!"

[merryhouse.livejournal.com]

Do you think she may have heard you saying that bit about how you wanted x number of children - the two you've got plus a load of twins and triplets?

Oliver asked the other day (at dinner, of course) how babies get *out* of their Mummy's tummy... so I said there's a special opening that gets bigger when necessary. I had to say that it was between the legs ("which can get a bit awkward") but made sure I pointed out that it was an *entirely* separate hole from the others.

Now I'm waiting for the day one of them asks how come we get to have a separate hole and they have to make do with doubling up...