Tonight I was putting away about ten loads of laundry that have been hanging out in baskets in the hall for the past two weeks, and Sophie started asking me about when I thought some of my younger siblings might start having kids of their own. "Let's call and ask. Right now," she said.
"No," I said, "A&J haven't been married that long, they are young, and most importantly, you can't ask someone if they plan to have kids or not -- it's none of your business, really."
"Hmmm," she said, "What about J&S?"
"What about them, Soph?"
"Maybe THEY will have a baby and we can give them some of these clothes for her!"
"Maybe."
"So. I wanna call A and ask her."
"No. Besides, she's young. I'm sure that there are so many things she'd like to do before she has kids, if they decide they want --"
Here, Soph interrupted me, all excited, "YEAH! Like marching around, cartwheels, swimming in whirlpools ('cause that is REALLY hard to do) and bike riding."
"Exactly." I said. "I really wish I had done lots more of those things before I had children. Especially the cartwheels."
"It's, like, impossible to do them when you're holding a baby," she said, "and same with bike riding."
"Totally, Soph. Totally."
I'm tempted to strap a child to my chest with my old baby sling and see if I can do a cartwheel.
I promise that when we decide to have children, Sophie will be the first to know. ;-)
that is cute as a button, seriously. i can't even do a cartwheel, so i guess i didn't miss much there.
I am afraid to try and do a cartwheel, I might hurt something! Tonight I did hang upside down by my knees from the trapeeze thing on the swingset. That definitely would not have been easy with a baby strapped to my chest.
What a fun kid. Hee.