Katherine on Procreation

"Hey, Mom.," says Katherine, walking into the kitchen with a baby doll under her dress. "Do you know how to get a real baby in your tummy*?"

"How?"

"Well, you can go to the store and buy a tiny baby skeleton, and, if I put it in my tummy*, it will grow into a real human baby!"

"Really?"

"Yeah. That's how you do it."



*Rant: It bothers me no end that she says "tummy," since I have always said "uterus," believing that calling a thing by its true name matters. She slips back into the "tummy" talk because everyone else says this. Grrr!