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Вчера вечером Мишка попросил пришить пуговицу к его штанам.  В процессе и он и Мишелка стали упрашивать меня научить их шить. 

Прихожу домой с работы, а Мишелка из другой комнаты прыгает мне на встречу и кричит что она Русалка.  Тут она доскакала до меня.  Я смотрю на ее ножки, а она две ножки в один носок засунула и прыгает:) Русалка :) lol

I don’t care about football and most of the sports but my husband and now my son are into it.  So, either I like it or not if there is a Super Bowl, the TV is on and some years even with a lot of company in our house.  I don’t usually watch it and not even interested in the so expected star commercials.  Last night wasn’t any different.  The only part that I watched was Madonna’s half time show.  My husband insisted that I watch it.

Mishka asked us who is Madonna? 
He got to see who she is.  Then he said that she was singing one song wrong because he saw it on YouTube how it is done correctly by some guys. :) We had a long argument that Madonna was the first one to sing that song and whoever is doing it on YouTube is only making out their own adaptation.

She looked like she was still in her 20^th only moving a lot slower.  She is over 50 now and it made me think, why celebrities  don’t want to grow up and develop more grown up art that takes them further ahead instead of making them stuck in the old-young?

I wished to hear a new song, see something new and unique, at least one piece out of several.  The show was great, spectacular-spectacular with old Madonna and her old songs where she wanted to look young.  I don't know, but there is something that bothers me about our culture of wanting to be frozen in one period of our lives and not being able to embrace all ages as they come.  Yes, we do grow and get old and even die, why fight this concept?  Who are we fooling?

This morning I drove kids over to the daycare.  Mishka brought two of his waterball guns with him.  As he got out of the car and I was getting Michelle out, I noticed that the guns were still behind the driver’s seat in the car on the floor.  I asked him if he forgot about them.  He told me:

-No, mom it is for you, in case of emergency! :)

Mishka’s last day of 2^nd grade was last Wednesday.  On Thursday, he wanted to go to work with me.  I am super busy these days and told him that I will take him to work with me sometime during the summer.  He went over to grandma’s daycare.  Since we have this convenient arrangement, I have not been thinking through his summers and I need to start!!!

Yesterday, in between our guests and getting Mishka to bed I managed to explain to him where babies come from.  He started asking me very persistently.  One of his arguments was that Liza, his cousin, knew about it since she was 2.  I told him that we have guests and I will do it some other day.   He was very persistent, so before bed time I explained it to him and was very glad that I bought the book Anatomy for the kids.

I started explaining to him about the seed and the flower.  When we plant a seed in the dirt after a while there will be a flower.  Same is with babies.  A seed gets into mommy’s tummy and the baby begins to grow.  He immediately asked me” how does the seed get into mommy’s tummy, is someone cutting it open?”

 Then I showed the pictures in the book.  The book has a very tasteful explanation with drawings of man’s and woman’s reproductive organs.  Everything else I pointed out on the pictures.  There was no talk about sex; just about the seed called sperm getting into the egg (it is pretty abstract for 7yr old).   I think talking about sex is a little bit too early for him and will just gross him out now.

After that they showed pictures of baby growing in the tummy.  Then we got to the part how does the baby get out of the tummy.  He asked me if “babies come out from the butt.”  I showed on the picture that from here women poop and from here they pee and give birth to the babies.   

Then we got to the breastfeeding.  He was amazed to learn that milk comes only after baby is born.  We had a short discussion about the structure of our body that has been designed so perfectly with everything it needs to function and restore itself.

He listened very seriously like he understood everything.  He is just 7 year old, that was enough for him.  He felt very mature after that talk!