She's having her usual chocolate spread with bread for breakfast. Yasmin was still asleep so I sat down with Sera while she ate.
"Yasmin is sleeping?"
"Yes sweetie, she's still sleeping."
She pauses and does a side-way/upward glance, as if thinking of what to ask next.
"Mama, you tired?"
"Yes, mama is tired ... as usual."
"Mama tired ... hmm."
She takes a bite of her bread, chews intently and looks up.
"Mama, Yasmin came from an egg?"
"Huh?"
Yes, yes what an intelligent answer but I was taken aback. I mean, it was only 7 in the morning and I was still half asleep. Was that a question or was she stating a fact? But before I could even say more ...
"Mama, Sera came from an egg?"
"Yes .... Sera do you like your bread?"
I know, such a lame excuse for an answer but what should I have said? Explain the whole reproduction process to a two-year old? Explain the excruciatingly painful but miraculous birthing process? I thought it better (for now at least) to let her think she came from an egg. She must have gotten that idea when we read her the story "Turtle Takes a Trip", whereby this little baby turtle hatched from an egg and took her journey across the vast oceans to finally nest. Well, technically or should I say, biologically Sera was conceived from an egg. So in a way, she did come from an egg. 'wink'.
Our Sera ... always talking, always asking, always exploring 
1 comment:
Haha... the things they say and ask. I think very soon you have to think of a story to explain how she came about. I like her 'Sera come from an egg.'. :-)
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