Conversations from the backseat...again.

I love the in-depth conversations Austin and I have (actually, any of my children for the matter). Yesterday while driving to the park here's what we chatted about...

Austin: "Mom, when I grow up I want to be the guy that sews up your belly after you have a baby".
Mom: "That would be a fun job"
Austin: "I think I'm gonna be the guy that gets it out too."
Mom: "So you want to be a doctor? that's great! Takes a lot of school to be a doctor - gotta work hard."
Austin: "What takes longer, going to school to be a football player or be a doctor?"
Mom: "To be a doctor."
Austin: "Huh."

I thought it was better to not tell Austin that if he's really good at football his schooling could be even shorter...

For those of you that don't know Shawn very well let me tell you a few things. He loves to quiz you. For example, in the car he is constantly quizzing me on who sings what song. Loves to play name the capitols of states, etc. He loves playing these little games with the kids too. His best games usually occur during dinner or at bath time. Bath time is where all three kids have learned their letters and numbers and is probably the reason Gabriella can say the whole alphabet at the age of two and even write some of those letters and identify many of them. Here's the latest game Shawn invented especially for Austin. They played "Fruit or Mammal". Which is exactly how it sounds - Shawn says the name of something and Austin says if it is a fruit or a mammal. Well, Shawn said whale. Austin says, "fish". (which was not one of the choices) Shawn says, no it's a mammal because it has live babies, and fish lay eggs. Austin sits...thinks...and then says, "well, if it has babies, where is the whale doctor that sews her back up after she has a baby?" So, apparently Austin is of the belief that since I, his mom, have had 4 c-sections, that every mom has c-sections in which the baby gets cut out and the mommy gets sewed back up (this totally seemed like a good and easy explanation at the time). So, Shawn says, "the baby doesn't get cut out, it comes out on it's own." Austin replies, "how does it come out on it's own?" Shawn says, "It comes out the "baby hole"." At that, there was silence and Shawn decided to play a new game called, "Vegetable or reptile."
I suppose we are going to have a LOT of explaining to do someday in the future when puberty hits. How do people do this????
Hope you are having the time of your life!
ST