Out of the Mouths of Babes

Sometimes I just have to stop and write down some of the things that my kids say so I never, ever forget them.  I have had two of those moments in the past few days...

Lilah

My lead teacher is VERY pregnant and we have had several false alarms where we thought she would deliver and then she hasn't.  Thus there has been much talk about baby Bella, when she's coming out, etc.  Bella will be hanging with me and Lilah in my office during the school day once here mommy returns from leave, so there has also been much discussion about who will hold the baby and how careful we will have to be with her. 

I tell the kids often that they have to be happily married before they can have kids.  I also tell them that babies come out of their mommy's hearts because the mommy loves the baby so much.  I mean, they are 5 and 2...that's as far as I am going with that discussion.

So this is the conversation I had with Lilah the other day...

L: "I'm married."
Me: "Oh really.  Who did you marry?"
L: "My Brian-boy."
Me: "Oh wow, that's great Lilah."
Longish pause...
L: "I have a baby in my belly."
Me: "Oh, do you?"
L: "Yep. Her name is Bella.  She's going to come out of my heart.  You will have to hold her.  I might drop her and she could get hurt really bad."

Two going on 17.  For real.

Brian

Today at the gym when I went to pick up Brian, a middle school aged girl stopped me and said, "I really like your son's hearing aids."  I replied, "thanks so much, sweetie!"  She lifted her hair to show me that she also has hearing aids.

As we walked out, I asked Brian if he noticed that she had hearing aids too.  His response...

"No.  What kind were they mom?"

Me: "Oh I don't know, red and brown, maybe."

B: "No MOM what SUPERhero?  (Insert eye rolling.)  Red and brown?  They must have been Iron Man ears."

LOVE him.