Lena B, Actually (Guest Post)

Hey peeps!

Happy to be hanging out with Miss Angie today!!

My name is Lena and I blog over at Lena B, Actually.

ACTUALLY, until recently my blog was called Mom2MemphisAndRuby... cuz I have 2 kids and they're named Mempohis & Ruby. Clever, right?

Besides being a mommy, I'm just a fashion-loving, photo-taking 30-something lady blogging from a small town in Quebec, Canada...

This is me:

And these are my kids:

 You can find out more about Ruby here... and Memphis here!

The BEST thing about having kids (aside from the unconditional love, of course) is the funny things they say & do.  I thought it would be fun to share the story of the time Memphis asked us where babies came from!  Enjoy!

When Memphis was 4 he started wondering exactly how babies were made. I think it must have had something to do with my sister being pregnant, at the time, and him being old enough to see the changes her body was going through... He was 2 when Ruby was born, so I think he sorta missed the whole point of why my belly was so big back then! Ha!

Catching me a bit off guard one day, the question came up about how mommies & daddies actually ''make'' babies.

I'm pretty open with my kids and always try to answer as honestly as I can in a way they can understand.... There are any number of ways I could have answered this... but for some reason, I blurted out that making babies is a wish a mommy & a daddy make together.

''They go somewhere special, alone, and hold each other and wish really hard for a baby.''

Aha! I loved it! The second I said it I thought for sure that would be it. No more questions. Kids like wishes, it seemed like a simple answer... we'd get down to the nitty gritty another time, right?

Well, right then & there, he looked at me me a HUGE grin on his face...

''Wow! Can I watch next time you and daddy make a wish!?''

Um, no... trust me kid that is something you definitely DO NOT want to see!

I was pretty quick that day because I answered:

''Of course not, silly... then the wish wouldn't come true! You know that when you make a wish, you never say it out a loud or tell anyone what you wished for!''

''Oh right!!' he said.

And that was it.

No more questions since then, so I think I'm off the hook for a little while!

Question now is, how did you answer your kids when the question came up?

Do you remember how you learned about 'the birds & the bees?' 

Interesting sidenote... I actually hung out with Tom Green one night.

He really IS as WEIRD as he is on TV.

{but that's another story!}

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