Back to school!

Today marks the first day of school here, Aidan enters in the big world of grade 5, and my little princess Edina was just not ready enough to make grade 2, so grade 1 for her this year again. she is still the same age as the other kids and being as young as she is, this just gives her the extra time to succeed in her learning. It helps she has a great teacher that she loves and I know she is well taken care of while she is there.

I took the kids to school today instead of letting them take the bus, I had a dream the other night that Edina fell over backwards and could not get back up.( kinda like a turtle on it back). ;-) I just felt better knowing they both got there with out falling over due to the sheer weight of the backpacks.
After helping both kids unpack their school supplies, I hugged both and kissed Edina (Aidan told me it was not cool to kiss your mom in front of all the kids) geez they grow so fast. soon hugs won't be aloud. but for now I'll be thankful I can at least hug him tight.

I had a hard time saying good bye for the day to them, they will be home in a few hours and I miss them so much. I realized why after I got home, Grandma (my mom) used to phone the first day of school ad wish them a great day, not much but its things like this I miss, her love for all her grand kids  ran deeper than I can say, she loved them all equally but each had a special piece of her heart.

Anyway I did promise you a funny posting about the kids being educated about where babies came from, so here we go.

A about 2 weeks ago, after working the day outside in the yard, we came in to get ready to start making supper, it was about 5ish I think. Aidan turned on the T.V. and was about to turn the channel to a kids program, when what was on caught his attention. I checked the info on it, and it said " the human body, the process from conception to birth" YUP he got a good microscope view of sperm. with a discussed look on his face as if it were worms or something else of grossness, he asked "mom what is THAT!" I simply told him it was sperm, and turned my back to see Edina and Rhiannon checking it out too. as they sat there watching it they asked me, yup you guessed "it what is sperm?". so with Eric shaking his head and telling me that I was opening a big bag of questions, I was on my own with it. I did think that I should change the channel to a more kid loved program, but it also passed my mind that I rather to be the one to explain to my kids not someone else this big question how are babies made? I have been asked lots about it and always gave the made from mommy and daddy's love answer to them. they were always happy with that, and it was easy.
I sat down with my kids and told them that sperm are what dads give moms to make a baby, as they watched the baby making program (don't worry it did not show the sex part, and if it did that would have been the automatic channel change now kinda mode).
Edina asked me if girls had sperm too? I told her that girls had eggs. just boys have sperm, she laughed at Aidan and told him he had worms and moved over 5 feet away from Aidan.
They watched the whole show that was 1 hour, and asked a few questions but for the most part they were happy knowing how babies are really made.
At supper it was a normal evening of sitting at the table eating together as a family supper did include some yummy baby carrots from the garden, complete with the tails of the root on them.
little did I know that i was maybe not a good idea to leave them on.
As Edina stabbed one with her fork she was flapping the tail that was on the carrot around and said "look mommy its sperm!" I could not contain myself from laughing, Eric, laughing too said "well can you picture this at thanksgiving dinner with extended family and our kids doing this?" Edina while everyone was laughing put the big part of the carrot in her mouth and said between her teeth "look the carrot sperm is eating the egg"
NOTE TO SELF------take the carrot tails off before serving supper.

Well that's all for now, I know some people won't like this post, and I don't really care, This is the natural way of children and their imaginations.