I've been waiting to get a photo of this to post it, so it's a bit out of sync, but I hope you'll understand. I hope you liked the way that I covered up my own inability to get off my fat arse and take a digital photo there. Anyone would think it had been to get developed at the chemists!
Moving swiftly on...
When we were in Grantham last weekend, my five year old niece H______ was very interested to hear that babies don't drink milk while they're in their mummy's tummy. We explained how the baby was in the uterus full of fluid and how she was connected to the mummy by a tube. "When you drink the milk into your tummy, it goes into the baby by the tube so she can drink it" and we said, "Well, not exactly, but close enough."
The next morning, H______ decided to do some drawing. She looked up at K___ and me and said, "I'm going to draw your baby." K___ and I tried to help by getting her to think about what colour hair K___ and I have (and at five years old, H_____ doesn't understand that it could be rude to point out to someone that they're a slaphead - not that I mind, but you don't want to encourage her to say it in case someone else does) and what colour eyes etc. H______ drew the baby. She decided the baby would have K___'s brown eyes and some weird hair colour that may have been meant to be the platinum blond colouring I had as a child (and indeed into early teenagehood) and a great bit grin.
Then she drew a little pink jacket and a purple mini-skirt. "Lovely!" we said. Then she drew a circle around the baby and drew a line from the baby to the outside of the the circle. And then coloured it blue and explained it was the balloon that the baby lived in, and blue was the water the baby lived in and the line was the tube that the baby ate her milk through.
I will be extremely impressed if our daughter comes out quite this well dressed!
Moving swiftly on...
When we were in Grantham last weekend, my five year old niece H______ was very interested to hear that babies don't drink milk while they're in their mummy's tummy. We explained how the baby was in the uterus full of fluid and how she was connected to the mummy by a tube. "When you drink the milk into your tummy, it goes into the baby by the tube so she can drink it" and we said, "Well, not exactly, but close enough."
The next morning, H______ decided to do some drawing. She looked up at K___ and me and said, "I'm going to draw your baby." K___ and I tried to help by getting her to think about what colour hair K___ and I have (and at five years old, H_____ doesn't understand that it could be rude to point out to someone that they're a slaphead - not that I mind, but you don't want to encourage her to say it in case someone else does) and what colour eyes etc. H______ drew the baby. She decided the baby would have K___'s brown eyes and some weird hair colour that may have been meant to be the platinum blond colouring I had as a child (and indeed into early teenagehood) and a great bit grin.
Then she drew a little pink jacket and a purple mini-skirt. "Lovely!" we said. Then she drew a circle around the baby and drew a line from the baby to the outside of the the circle. And then coloured it blue and explained it was the balloon that the baby lived in, and blue was the water the baby lived in and the line was the tube that the baby ate her milk through.
I will be extremely impressed if our daughter comes out quite this well dressed!
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