Yesterday I woke up to this statement from A: “I want a brother and a sister. A brother and a sister, that’s what’s going to make me happy.”
Some snippets from our recent conversations about brothers and sisters:
1.
A: Mommy, how do you make people?
Me: In the mommy’s body there is a little thing called an egg and in the Daddy’s body there is a little thing called a sperm. And then they get mixed together in the mommy’s tummy and make a baby that grows in the mommy’s tummy until it is ready to come out.
A: Mommy, but how do you make REAL people?
2.
A: Mommy, can I have a sister?
Me: Maybe. Maybe we will have another baby but you can’t choose if it’s going to be a boy or a girl.
A: But I don’t want a brother, I want a sister. I already have a brother.
Me: Why do you want a sister?
A: So I can play with her. I want to give her a name. You got N and I got Betsy and I want the sister to be called Amanda.
Me: But what if it’s a boy?
A: We’ll call him Sasha. Hehehe. That’s silly right? I want a sister.
3.
A: Mommy, I’m going to help you get the sister. OK? I’ll go with you to the hospital so you don’t have to be there alone with Daddy. And you will lift me up so I can see all the little cribs and I can choose our baby.
Me: It doesn’t really work that way. You get the baby that was in Mommy’s tummy. That’s your baby.
A: But I want to choose. I want a sister. And then they will open your belly and put the baby in. And that’s how it’s going to be.
So complicated.