Tonight a question was posed while Jake was getting ready for bed.
"Mommy," he said while I was cutting his nails, "why do you have two daddies?"
Well, I went into this long indepth monologue about marriages and love and families and blah blah blah. I didn't actually think I was saying "blah blah blah," but apparently that's what came out of my mouth.
Because it came up again while we sat on the couch with Ike for storytime. Except this time it went like this.
"I think Granddaddy is your only daddy and you're just confused. Because Grandpa is Uncle Eli's daddy and Eli is too young to be an uncle because he's only 8. So he can't be an uncle, I only have one uncle. Eli is a fake uncle. And so you can't have two daddies."
Seriously, that was the logic. I don't get it completely, but in some strange way it makes sense.
I'm just glad we convinced him that he doesn't really need two daddies...
In other news (still about Jake), today was "chore day" for Jake. He worked almost nonstop on different things around the house. After he Windexed the front door, he turned to work on the tv screen.
After cleaning it, he said, "Wow, I can tell the tv is clean because it's a whole new color."
So maybe we should dust the tv more often?
"Mommy," he said while I was cutting his nails, "why do you have two daddies?"
Well, I went into this long indepth monologue about marriages and love and families and blah blah blah. I didn't actually think I was saying "blah blah blah," but apparently that's what came out of my mouth.
Because it came up again while we sat on the couch with Ike for storytime. Except this time it went like this.
"I think Granddaddy is your only daddy and you're just confused. Because Grandpa is Uncle Eli's daddy and Eli is too young to be an uncle because he's only 8. So he can't be an uncle, I only have one uncle. Eli is a fake uncle. And so you can't have two daddies."
Seriously, that was the logic. I don't get it completely, but in some strange way it makes sense.
I'm just glad we convinced him that he doesn't really need two daddies...
In other news (still about Jake), today was "chore day" for Jake. He worked almost nonstop on different things around the house. After he Windexed the front door, he turned to work on the tv screen.
After cleaning it, he said, "Wow, I can tell the tv is clean because it's a whole new color."
So maybe we should dust the tv more often?
2 Comments:
That was a hard conversation for me too. Especially since I kinda sprung my "real" dad on them like a month before we met him and they didn't even knew I had one, LOL. I just never thought to say "By the way, Mommy has another Daddy that you don't know." It sounds like you did a much better job at explaining though. I think Jake is just too smart and makes his own sense of things :)
Yeah that would be kind of hard to explain to a 5 year old.
Oh by the way when we trade boys make sure yours brings his dust rag with him!! LOL
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