Hey mom guess what?

Holy Moly, I knew this was coming but yet, still SO not prepared!

Here is how events unfolded. I was running back and forth up and down the hall, putting laundry away and picking up toys, when I walked past Raegan's room, I noticed Dalyn sitting on her bed with a book, really didn't think much of it then on another pass, he calls out, "Hey mom, guess what, I am reading a book about how babies grow."

WHAT?!!!!!!!

You know in the cartoons when they suddenly stop in the dirt and a cloud of dust puffs up around them, yeah, that was me. About face and high tail it in there to see what the heck he is looking at.

This is one of the hazards of having multiple children. By the time you are on number 5 or 6, your older ones are old enough to start noticing things and asking some major questions! Up until now when they say, "How do we get babies" I have been able to get away with "When a mommy and daddy get married and they decide they are ready, then Heavenly Father sends them babies." The end . . .

BUT NOW I get, "But how did they get in there?" and "Why do you have to have a mom and a dad?" . . . YIKES!

So anyway I bust through the door and snatch the book out of his hand, trying to be suave and not make a big deal I said, "Oh really buddy, let me see", in my head "GIVE ME THAT, What do you think you are doing, you are just a baby!!!!" I made up some lame excuse "Oh I want to read that for just a minute " as I try to hide any pictures or info from his eyes until I can determine what it says. I had just snatched his entertainment so he was glued to my arm like a leach, trying to read over my shoulder while I duck and dodge him. He finally gave up and said, "I guess I will just wait my turn" I wandered around for a few minutes with it in my hands trying to look like I was studying it, under his eye, finally when he got distracted I put it down and hid it under a pile of papers and magazines.

SO LAME of me, but I needed time to think. Of course five minutes later he was back asking where I had put that book, I babble and stutter something like "Oh I am still looking at it I just put it down over there somewhere (waving my hand in some other direction), I'll get it back to you in a minute." He asked for it about 15 more times over the next hour, then I think he FINALLY forgot, or just moved on.

It really was nothing to freak out about, it's a how it works book, like what happens to your food, how your senses work and of course how babies grow. The depth of it was only, what is in a mom and what is in a dad and when they get together then a baby starts growing, no scary details, but there were pictures, okay pictures is a MAJOR over exaggeration they were total cartoony, charlie brown pictures, but in my mind it looked borderline pornographic for my babies eyes, and Dalyn's imagination would fill in all kinds of details.

Now it is true I want to be the one to share these little tid bits with my kids not some book or worse a wack-a-do nine year old at school whose information comes from the magazines he finds under his big brothers mattress. But how and when do you have these conversations with your kids? Terry just laughed at me when he got home. He said, just let him look at the book, he will ask questions and then we can answer them.

I am SO not ready for this, he was just born like a couple years ago, I think?! How in the world can we be at this point in his life already? He is still my baby boy who can't sleep on Christmas Eve and tries to stay awake to catch the tooth fairy in action, who still holds my hand when we are in a parking lot or crossing the street, whose conversations are entirely "What if I built a rocket that could . . ." and "What if I could jump so high . . ." who wants to be and astronaut and a architect and a doctor when he grows up, who is fascinated by clouds and the universe and spends hours studying them with his baby sister . . .

More then I don't know how to have these major conversations with my kids, I don't want to, cuz it means they are growing up.

Why can't they stay little and innocent forever?