Back in 2003 (or maybe 2002) I hosted one of those book parties that parents of preschoolers tend to host. You know the type, like Tupperware. I invite my friends, they look at books, the more they buy the bigger my free gift.
On this day my free gift was a four-in-one book which included three delightful preschool books and the title “Where Do Babies Come From?”
I had a quick glance through the four books. Three were perfect, but I just wasn’t so sure about the picture of the sperm and the egg, so I decided to put the entire book away for a few years.
Decide being the key word.
Since I only made a decision, and didn’t take an action, my daughter found it and began looking through it.
Someone else, I think it was her Uncle, read her the stories.
Naturally, she loved book, especially the story about food. She didn’t seem at all interested in where babies came from.
I let her keep the book.
Babies never came up.
A few months later and we were invited to a kid’s holiday party at my friend’s church.
We love wholesome activities, so we went.
One of the crafts was to make those paper chains.
We love doing crafts. Cutting, coloring, gluing, etc. So this craft was right up our alley. You know the type, you start with strips of paper about 1×8 inches, glue the ends of the first to make a loop and then each subsequent loop overlaps making a chain.
All of the children were decorating and adding to the ever growing chain.
One of my girls was using lots of colors and drawing lovely arches.
A stranger asked,
“What are you drawing?”
“Rainbows”
I was proud.
Then he turned to my toddler who was drawing circles with squiggles.
“And what are you drawing, dear?
“Sperm”
“Pardon”
“I am drawing sperm.”
Now he turns to me,
“Excuse me, what did she say she was drawing?”
Ok, what to do. I knew he heard. So a quick run through my brain, hurry, what sounds like sperm – spit, spew, not a big improvement. With a straight and proud face . . .
“Sperm, she said she was drawing sperm.”
Funny thing, we were never invited back.
It could have been worse, she could have brought this toy:
Giant Microbes Sperm Cell Microbe – $8.94
I don’t know who actually buys this stuff, but if it is you, you might also like to know that they have a Giant Microbes Sperm and Egg Set option.
And since I was laughing at sperm, I had a quick search and found a sperm bank for only $7.99:
And if that’s not enough you can be a sperm this Halloween. Check out these sperm costumes.
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Kids! If there is a term or word you’d rather them not use that will be the first thing they do. Bless their hearts. Bwahahahahahahahaha.
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Have a terrific day.
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OMG! Yep, I can only imagine the brain activity going with you the millisecond after the man asked “What did she say?” I think I would have frozen. Wish I could have heard it with my own ears.
Yes Paige, it is one of those moments that is now hilarious, but not so much at the time.
Great story! Is it just me or do some of your pictures look like they could be related to Casper The Friendly Ghost?
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Thanks Julie. As for casper, are you saying that the white sperm look ghostly, or that my blog looks washed out on your screen. It looks great on my mac.
Kids, you have to love them
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You just never know what kids are retaining.
LOL, Rhonder! Proof once again, kids will say the darndest things! Love your story.
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Thanks Joyce
Thanks for the laugh. I would have been so embarrassed.
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Oh my! Kids say the funniest things! I would have just died! LOL!
Yea, Kids are pretty honest