This pregnancy has reached the point of being no.fun.at.all, and although the little guy is performing like a champ (during today's weekly non-stress test at the hospital, the nurse came in and proclaimed, "You win the healthiest baby of the day award! We are all sitting out there just laughing at how active he is!") the whole body-as-host thing is really wearing me down. I'm sore just about everywhere and he has now started to explore my upper ribcage with what is presumably his knees and feet but which feels like a 12-limbed Hindu deity.
And it's only week 37, folks. At least three -- and probably four -- weeks still to go.
But enough complaining.
I have to share my preschool bathroom conversation with Reni today, because someday he will appreciate hearing about his precocity and because I just love my little conversationalist.
After using the urinal like a pro, he pointed to the painting of the solar system on the bathroom wall and asked, "Which one is earth?"
I pointed to it and then he started pointing and asking the name of each of the other planets. He was particularly interested in Saturn and asked what "those things" were (the rings) and then he asks, "Who lives on all the other planets?"
I explained that Earth is special and is the only planet in our solar system to have people living on it. Then I pointed to Mars and told him that we have robots there now, driving around the surface and sending back all kinds of cool information.
Without hesitating, he exclaimed, "I wanna do that when I grow up!"
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