Raelynn had her first piano recital, and has overcome her significant fear of failure and her total lack of rhythm. Paige is a little distracting, so my apologies for the wobbly video, but there it is. Raelynn has also taken a giant leap in playing softball, bolstered, I think, by praise from dad about her throwing ability and praise from Kimberly after seeing Rae at bat during an impromptu game at the park. Turns out Raelynn has easily made friends with a team she joined a month late with zero experience, and is playing great. She's really coming along, that girl.
On a different note, tonight she asked me what "nuggets" are and then proceeded to ask me a series of well thought out questions with suprising clarity. After a brief stunned silence, I recovered enough to have a talk with her. I won't go into the details for you, but I felt I had to go into some details with Raelynn. I was so not planning on having that conversation when my baby was eight, but she seemed to feel far less awkward than I did when I was twelve. I usually rely on Tiffany to do things before I do, and to tell me how to do them. In this case, I only briefly considered the whole "it's your belly button" ruse she so cleverly used with Olivia as a toddler. I hope I did the right thing, but really, what choice did I have? Ready or not, eh?
Watch out, world. She's more intrepid than she seems.
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Oh my! We need to talk! I'm almost certain that Ashlee's not ready for the nugget talk.....actually I think it's me whose not yet ready. Yikes!
She was very inquisitive after Indy was born. Asking how the little bit of the daddy gets into the mommy to grow a baby. My response was, "You're studying the life cycle of a chicken right? Well then, there you go." Her response was, "Yeah but how can a rooster feritilzie Carrie's eggs if she doesn't have any?"
After explaining that we do have eggs, I went and poured a glass of wine and then proceeded to tell her, "and the rest is just private, naked, mommy and daddy time (which of course doesn't involve any roosters)." That shut her up! I think I've ruined her. Hopefully the other two choose to go to Daddy and not me - or even worse, Ashlee.
Awesome job on the piano Rae! And you ROCK on the softball field! Nice hit tonight!
Okay, first of all, the recital is fabulous. And hooray for Rae and softball! I used to play softball in about 2nd or 3rd grade. Good for her!
Now, what ARE nuggets? I'm baffled. Mock if you will, but I've come a long way since the "belly button" talk. I've learned the most important phrase in awkward talks with your child - "give me a minute, and we'll talk about this". Then you hyperventilate and get your ducks in a row before you begin the talk. (At a time and place of YOUR choosing). Olivia informed me over dinner a few weeks ago that she knows all about "puberty and stuff like that." To my look of shock she replied, "you know - you bleed down there (pointing downward), you get hairy (still pointing downward), your voice gets low..."
So I informed her that we would revisit this conversation at a more appropriate time. She didn't seem concerned at all (she already thought she knew it all). I suffered through "the talk" at Weinerschnitzel of all places with Mom. So a week later I sat her down on our couch and had the maturation talk which fortunately stopped short of sex and she seemed satisfied with. Sadly, last night she asked me what happens to boys when they hit puberty... I changed the subject.
The 5th graders recently had the whole puberty unit at school in prep for middle school I guess, and she heard all the buzz from several of them. Like you Courtney, I felt it was too soon, but what can you do? I wanted her to get it from me and get it straight. And it turned out well because she wasn't embarrassed or uncomfortable at all. So maybe it's good to catch them before they get really awkward about it and only want the info from friends...
Whew, this is too much typing and I should have called you instead. But now I can share my brilliant wisdom with all of your readers. All three of us.
Oh Raelynn. That dress she is wearing looks a surprising amount like the dress I wore at my one recital. Well done to her!
Also the softball success hardly surprises me when I think about her sassy stance and grand-slam swing that Easter you guys visited us in Provo.
Glad for Raelynn's sake you ammended your post a bit, but also glad I saw it first because that is hilarious. I will continue the trend of embarassing our children by telling you about how Laine grabbed Henry's equipment in the bath last night. I told her no and Henry told me "that's okay, I like it." Time to end bath time together?
Also not totally sure what a nugget is, unless you mean golden or chicken. But I don't think you do.
For the calrification of my three readers, let me inform you that I also was a littel unsure about the nuggets. But Miles was confident and immediately said, "It means balls, mom." Oh. Right.
We had the whole talk with Janae at 8- it seemed a little young but we wanted to make sure she heard it from us not the playground. She was very interested in the whole thing and asked lots of questions that made me want to run away and leave the rest of her "education" to the school system. We have had several follow-up talks and I feel like she is comfortable talking to us which make me happy- I just wish is also didn't make me VERY uncomfortable!
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