Brayden (giving me a big hug and rubbing my belly): "Mommy it's like you are having another baby!"
Me: " "
Brayden (now rubbing my belly like it's Buddha): "You know? "Cause your belly is so round..."
Me: " "
Me:" I...um... "
Me: "Okay--it is NEVER okay to say that to ANYONE...EVER...especially me...."
Brayden: "Why?"
Me: "It's just not nice because a woman then feels like her belly is too big and if there isn't a baby in there she will feel sad. Like maybe she tries to eat right and exercise, but her belly still looks like there is a baby in it. Maybe she feels like know matter WHAT she does, her belly seems to keep growing and--"
Brayden: "Umm...Mommy...don't worry about it. It's just like the beginning of having a baby in your belly, so it's not too big yet."
Me:" "
Me: " "
Brayden (now rubbing my belly like it's Buddha): "You know? "Cause your belly is so round..."
Me: " "
Me:" I...um... "
Me: "Okay--it is NEVER okay to say that to ANYONE...EVER...especially me...."
Brayden: "Why?"
Me: "It's just not nice because a woman then feels like her belly is too big and if there isn't a baby in there she will feel sad. Like maybe she tries to eat right and exercise, but her belly still looks like there is a baby in it. Maybe she feels like know matter WHAT she does, her belly seems to keep growing and--"
Brayden: "Umm...Mommy...don't worry about it. It's just like the beginning of having a baby in your belly, so it's not too big yet."
Me:" "
Good backtracking. Smart kid.
ReplyDeleteYeah--you've gotta love it--hopefully he will get to the point where backtracking isn't necessary! Perhaps after I birth the baby...
DeleteThis reminds me of a conversation I had with my four year old last week.
ReplyDelete4yo: Mom, our bellies don't match.
Me: Yea?
4yo: Yea, mine is just smooth, but yours has purples stripes all over it. It's fancy.
And they say stretch marks fade with time!
BAHAHAHAHAHA! I LOVE it--we have FANCY bellies--let's consider ourselves lucky! Only mine is fancy and holding a nonexistent baby in it...
Deletehahahahaha!!! oh kids...
ReplyDeleteYou've gotta love them...right?!
Deletehaha oh lil ones! At least he isn't telling everyone that you are going to have a baby brother come out of your tummy....and you aren't even preggo! Thats what mines doing now. He announced it to everyone last weekend when we weren't with him!
ReplyDeleteHA! What do you even SAY at this point?! I told mine that sometimes moms get bigger bellies after they have babies and as long as he knows I exercise and eat right then we don't have to worry about my belly. Then I laughed (at the absurdity) and cried (at the truth) and locked myself in the bathroom for a while...
DeleteHahahaha! He is obviously just trying to give you good material to work with. Hahaha!
ReplyDeleteI know, right?! He did know I had hit a dry spell...so really I should THANK him!
DeleteHahahaha! Oh, that's too cute! :) You have to love how kids think - like, "Oh, she must've thought I meant 8 1/2 months pregnant. Well, this should make her feel much better..." Um, not really, kid. :)
ReplyDeleteRIGHT?! Of course, that could be because he is a kid or it could be because he is male...
DeleteAck! He is cute, but I feel your pain--NEVER a good thing for a woman to hear.
ReplyDeleteI did finally tell him that it is really not polite to comment on ANYONE'S belly to which he looked quite skeptical...now I can only hope that he keeps it in the family!
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