And the Other Shoe Finally Dropped

We've never aggressively pushed the fact that the Girl was adopted onto her. We knew that, in time, the questions would come. We thought that by taking her along with us to adopt the Boy in China, new questions would rise up. But no, there wasn't too much great curiosity at that time. I think the Girl was too busy dealing with the fact that there was a new stranger who now had 50% of Mommy's attention.

And now she's 6, and now the gears are turning in her head.

A online chat that Wifey and I had just a few minutes ago about her drive to day camp this morning.

[posted with permission from Wifey]

8:54 AM Wifey : [The Girl] finally put all of the pieces together this morning!

after 3 days of talking about babies, China, and adoptions

me: what pieces, that she's adopted?

8:55 AM Wifey: she said "so I had other parents that wanted me but they gave me up so they could have a boy?"

me: ahhh

Wifey: I told her we would never know for sure why they put her up for adoption, but that is the typical reason

8:56 AM I did not tell her about being abandoned [at the location in China]

me: Well, that's for later, I'm sure.

Wifey: yesterday's talk was all about babies being born

8:57 AM me: I'm waiting for the next step where she then tries to map this logic to [the Boy].

Wifey: I told babies start from an egg inside the Mommy but I left out the whole Daddy role!

me: Of course.

8:58 AM Wifey: she thinks all pregnancies are planned by Mommys and Daddys, of course

we bordered on me being pregnant, but I was able to avoid anything about me

me: yeah, that's for much later.

8:59 AM Wifey: she said something again this morning, about me being pregnant "one day" and I told her no

9:00 AM I'm sure there will be more questions tomorrow!

me: Yup