Questions for mama.

Jaia has started to ask hard questions.  Questions I’ve never thought about before and some I can’t easily anwer.

It started at dinner the other night.  Dan did something silly and I said he was weird.  Jaia looks up at me and says, “Mama, what does ‘weird’ mean?”  I chuckled to myself because I had no idea how to answer so that a 2 year old would understand. 

“It’s like something that’s …funny.”

She laughs her maniacal laugh and says, “Mama, weird isn’t funny!”.

Ummm..ok.  She has a point.  Jaia 1 – Mama 0.

Not 10 minutes later, we were talking about what we’d have for Easter dinner.  Jaia looks up at me and asks, “Mama, what’s Easter dinner?”

Crud.  She got me again.  We have not really explained much about Easter to her at all (yes, I understand HOW last minute I left this).  And now I have to try to squeeze it all in to properly answer her question.  To save time and not confuse the hell out of her, I jump right over the religious part of Easter and head straight to the bunny part.  The bunny that hides candies and chocolate part. 

The words ‘candy and chocolate’ made her clap her hands with such glee and delight that she immediately forgot all about her original question.   Phewf.  Saved by sugar.

Jaia 1 – Mama 1.  Even score.  For now.