#1 and #2 and I were out on the town--you know hang out like men do. I was the designated driver and they were in the back seat chillin' during an evening on the prowl with no ladies to drag us down. Just the boys being boys.
Somehow we got on the topic of marriage, I believe it was #1 that brought it up. #2 said that he was going to get married on day also, but that he wasn't going to go to church, like priesthood nor was he going to work. #1 said that priesthood meeting was cool and that that was what you had to do when he got married. Then #1 said that maybe when he got married his wife would have kids. I asked him what he meant. He said that he didn't really know if his wife would have kids yet when they got married or if it would be after. He wasn't sure because that is a "wife thing" and we don't really know about that stuff since we are guys. "That is their thing you know," I believe is what he said.
I didn't probe too much further. I am really not out to raise male chauvinists. I just don't think he has any idea about the reproduction cycle yet. But he wasn't really too concerned about whether his wife came with kids or not, that was not really an issue for him, he just knew that kids came into play at some point and that this was not really anything within his realm of control, thus it is just one of those "wife things."
#1 said that his wife would have blond hair and #2 said that his would have yellow hair. I asked about brown hair, #1 said no, but black hair would be fine.
I really just let the conversation flow with only an occasional question here and there. Kids are wacky.
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Tonight Lissy, the 5-year-old, said, "You had sex with Dad." My ears were burning. Where was she getting this stuff? I better stop watching so much network TV with the kids in the room, gees.
holy heck, that was great! i love that you post these conversations - i love reading them. you're kids are great.
It is really interesting to me the way they think. They have a certain knowledge base which is still so incomplete. Yet they use it to make assumptions about the world around them which makes things fun. Today, Jack was talking about what Batman was like as a baby. He had a little tiny Batman costume, He ate Bat Baby Food, and his butler had to take care of him. It was funny how detailed he was getting.
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