After months of talking about this, Ellie finally caught on.
(A conversation in two parts.)
Ellie: First you get a pregnant belly…then you get a baby!
Kristie: (excited by her connections) That’s right! (…aaannnnd back pedaling…) Well…First you get married, then you get a pregnant belly, and then you can get the baby.
Ellie: Married?
Kristie: Well…like Mommy and Daddy are married. (real great explanation there, huh?)
(two weeks later, Jason was telling Ellie that she would be the flower girl in my sister’s wedding…)
Jason: And Aunt Amanda…do you remember Aunt Amanda?
Ellie: Yeah…
Jason: When she gets married, you get the be the flower girl! Can you say flower girl?
Ellie: Flower girl. And then Aunt Amanda will get a baby!
a baby!?
yikes.