Other things

Declan lost one of his front teeth and, as Chris noted, has reached a whole new level of cuteness.

Declan has been thinking about what I should be when I grow up since I'm back in school. He knows what my career choice is (generally speaking), but he'll pipe up with things periodically that he thinks I should consider besides houses. His most frequent suggestions are: be a teacher so I can teach his class at his school next year or the year after or whenever I'm done, or maybe open a restaurant and be a cooker for the restaurant. I think, given the variety of options he could come up with, those are pretty complimentary.

Logan recently asked if his friend Caleah can spend the night. It sort of stopped me in my tracks, because that wasn't exactly what I was expecting him to ask. I fumbled a little trying to figure out how best to explain to him that boys and girls can't spend the night together without opening a whole new world of questions and curiosities that he hasn't thought about yet. Aside from their brief questioning about what their testicles are or why I don't have a penis, there hasn't been much discussion about relationships or babies or anything like that.

So I pretty much just said that it wasn't appropriate and it was fine if she came over to play, but she would have to sleep in her own home. Logan said he didn't understand why it was inappropriate just because she's a girl and he's a boy. I looked at him and said he'd just have to trust me on the matter and believe that he'll understand it better when he grows up. He said, "THAT'S why Caleah keeps saying she's a girl and can't spend the night. I didn't get it when she said it." Apparently this is something they've been discussing for a while.

Curious about how he was envisioning this sleepover going down, I asked him where he thought she would sleep. Logan said, "Well, I was thinking that she could sleep in my bed and I could sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor since she'd probably be more comfortable in my bed than on the floor." Cute, right?

So then Declan walks in the room in the middle of this (by the way, Declan also wants to marry Caleah, but since Logan saw her first he's deferring) and realized what we were talking about. He started talking about how he also wished Caleah could spend the night. I asked him where he thought Caleah would sleep and he said, "She can sleep in my bed and I'll sleep in Logan's and Logan can sleep on the floor." Typical.