Friday, January 21, 2011

A lesson for Ava

I have to relate this because it is something that always comes up when you have a new baby in the house different than the older one.
I went to visit last night, the boys are doing good, still very small and squinty and squirmy. Amber was feeding one and the other (they have leg bracelets I made but I can't tell them apart yet) was on the bed in front of her.
I think she was feeding Andrew and just as he finished up, biiig poop. Amber had Ava help her change his diaper by getting the changing pad and as she was watching, (apparently for the first time paying attention to what's going on) she asked,
"What's that!?" (they were circumsized in the hospital so they have a small gauze wrap)
Amber... I could hear the wheel shifting in her head, she's smart as a tack that one..
"That's his weewee." (I could hear Ava's brain working on this too The rest of this may not be accurate but the essence of what she said)
'Huh? Why does he have that?'
'Boys have wee's that stick out and girls have..'
"Folds" I interjected. 
It boiled down to Amber's description to her as, 'Boys have hot dogs and balls and girls have tacos'.
So Ava got her first anatomy lesson and her first lesson in the difference between boys and girls. It just struck me now that she has school today. We didn't tell her not to ask to see the other boys at school.... hooboy. I hope she's smart enough not to go around telling everyone what happened!
(Oh, the hats are adorable! They likely won't fit them until they're about 2 or 3 but that's okay. They're cuuute!)

As for me, I have a doctor appointment for the GB surgeon the Friday before surgery instead of the day after surgery. They have to do xrays and pre-op stuff like before. Though I think there might be a bit more digestive things involved... I hope they don't give me the colostomy treatment! yoiks!
Anyway... other than that, cough is going away, tummy is settling down and settling into work. Some days my feet hurt and others the day goes by quickly, practically up to full speed although reaching over my head is a bit tricky on the right side.
Okay, off I go for trolling the internet and then getting ready for work.

"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice."  - Otto van Bismark

Gee, sounds like some customers at the nursery!

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