WOW....

So a few nights ago Justin and I decided to sit down with Brighton and have "the talk" with him. Not so much because we really wanted to, but because Brighton has been asking questions, very specific questions, relentlessly for the past year. We had decided that when each of our kids turned 8 years old, we would have the SEX talk with them and tell them everything about it. But Brighton is still 6! I really didn't want to go there yet, he's not supposed to care about any of that!! Unfortunately for me,  Brighton has been asking questions since Dale was born:

"How does the doctor get the baby out? Does he cut a hole in your tummy?"

No Brighton, the baby comes out of the Mommies private parts area.

"What does it look like?"

I looked up an illustration of the female anatomy to show Brighton what the "place" looks like where the baby comes out.

"Why do boys have their privates on the outside, but girls have them on the inside?"

Cuz that's just how Heavenly Father made us, Brighton.

"How does the baby get inside the mom's tummy?"

Well, Moms and Dads decide when they want to have another baby and they make it together.

"But HOW does the baby get in there?"

Well Brighton, remember those special powers we talked about and how we shouldn't play with them until we are married?  (We have discussed what our privates are for and how special they are since they help us make babies, and that we should really try not to use them or play with them until after we are married)

"Yes"

Well mommies and daddies use those powers together to make babies.

"But how does the baby get in there?"

We will tell you ALL about it when you turn 8 Brighton, it's just kind of hard to understand at your age.

"But how does the baby get in there?"

"I'll tell you when you are 8 Brighton"

"But I just want to know how the baby gets in there."

etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

This has been going on for the past few months, and so we finally decided that we would talk about it since we didn't want him asking somebody else (i.e. at school) and getting wrong or raucous information. We have always answered Brighton's questions about other things that we thought were maybe a little beyond his age (religious & moral questions, science, meaning of life, etc.) and I think he couldn't get over the fact that we weren't answering THIS question.

So we sat Brighton down on the couch and told him we would answer any and all of the questions he had (I didn't want to volunteer any additional information at this point if I didn't have to). Of course the first question was, "How does the baby get in the mommy's tummy." To this question, Justin posed a question to Brighton, "Brighton, you know how we have a lot of chickens outside in the coop and we have a lot of eggs? Well, how come we have all those eggs but we don't have any baby chicks running around?"

"Because there aren't any roosters to fertilize the eggs!" (I must admit I was surprised that Brighton knew the concept of fertilization)

"That's right Brighton, and in people it's kind of the same. You know how in your private parts you have those little balls (lol, by the way we did teach Brighton the actual term once but honestly I prefer to call them little balls rather than scrotum at this point...) behind your pee pee...uh...penis?"

"Yeah"

"Well in boys those balls have sacs inside where they create the stuff...uh...sperm, to fertilize the eggs, and the eggs are inside of mommy's private parts"

I proceeded to tell Brighton a little about the inside of the woman and how small the eggs are and how one comes out once a month and how the sperm fertilizes the egg and once that happens, it starts to split super fast and in nine months, you have a baby. 

Voilà! Right? Wrong.

Next question: "But how does the sperm get inside the mom?"

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(short pause as we frantically think about how to explain while trying to hold on to our son's innocence...)

"Well Brighton, Daddies and mommies put their private parts together to get it in there"

"But how does it get in there?"

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"Well, Daddy has to put his private part inside mommy's private part"

and this is where we get to the title of this post, because at that point, Brighton had his hand near his mouth, and with a slight smile and giggle, said "Wow....."

and we all laughed.

Don't worry, we also discussed with Brighton about how parents have reasons for wanting to wait until their kids are a few years older to have this talk, and how he shouldn't talk with the kids at school about it because, just like his parents, their parents want to tell their kids themselves, etc. We talked about how special it all was, and how he could come to us with his questions and we would be happy to answer them. Then, before he could think of any more questions :) we rushed him off to bed.

The following morning, just as Brighton and I pulled up to the bus stop to wait for his bus, he says, "Mom? How does the Dad get the sperm to come out?"

".........uh, well like we talked about last night, Daddies and Mommies put their privates together, honey"

"But how does he get the sperm to come out?"

"Well Brighton, it's really kinda hard to understand that part until you are a little older"

"But how does it come out?"

I looked to the left and THANK HEAVENS to what I saw, 

"Look Brighton! Your bus is here! Have a great day at school, love you!"

SAVED BY THE BUS!