Me and my kiddo: Driving to school all while listening to a Columbus Zoo commercial about their new hunka hunka burning love Nanuq (the male stud Polar bear) on loan. {Commercial talking about the hope for new baby polar bears while Nanuq is on loan}.
Kiddo: Mom, do animals get married?
Me {thinking in my head}: Ah oh… I know where this is headed.
Me {out loud}: No kiddo. Animals don’t get married.
Kiddo: Then how do they have babies? {At least I know he is listening when I say you must first be in your thirties, have a college degree AND be married before you can have babies}.
Me: Animals don’t need to be married to have baby animals honey. They can just have babies anytime.
Kiddo: How do they get babies?
Me {thinking in my head}: Man this is the longest five-minute ride to school ever!
Me (out loud): It is called mating. When animals mate, they will have babies.
Kiddo: What is mating?
Me: You will learn all about mating when you are in 4th grade.
Kiddo: Why not now when I am in 2nd grade?
Me: Because you have math, and reading, and writing, and soccer, and lots of other stuff to learn in 2nd grade.
Me and my Kiddo: Finally pulling into the school parking lot and not a second to soon!
To be continued in two years ….
