I don't know why

Romney has hit that inquisitive phase in life where the only things that come out of his mouth are the following......
1. No
2. Why?

He is a double question-asker, and sometimes his questions are hard. Here is a sample format to understand what I mean. It goes like this...
"Why does blah blah blah blah? Why daddy why?"
"Why does something something something? Why does it dad? Why?"

Every time. Here are a few questions from this week.

Why do we try and not crash our car?
What happens if our car is on fire?
What would we do if the tires of our car were on fire?
Why don’t we have a fire proof car?
Do we die if we catch on fire?
What would we do if our hands were on fire?
Would we die if we had balls of fire in our hands?
Why are there leaves on trees?
How do the trees grow the leaves?
Why are leaves green?
Why is Lainey older than me?
When I’m 8 will Lainey still be older than me?
Why does Jesus want Lainey to be older than me?
When I’m 8 will I still be older than Will?
Why do you know how to drive a car?
Why do we have to be safe inside a car?
How do you get strong?
How do boats get on fire?
How does fire come down from the sky?
How do you know how to drive a car?
Why does snow melt when it touches the ground?


BUT...
Those questions are nothing compared to these.....
How does the baby get inside the mommy’s tummy?
But HOW does it get inside the mommy's tummy?
Where does the baby come out?
Why does the baby come out of the mom’s vagina?

We have a TON of pregnant people in our neighborhood right now and clearly this has sparked some interest for Romney. One night just as I was arriving at a church meeting I got a text from Marie that said. "You just dodged a serious bullet. As soon as you left the kids hit me on the birds and the bees questions."

Turns out Romney was the instigator but Lainey was a very attentive listener. Marie and I had discussed that at some point when our kids were ready they would ask these questions. We also decided that when they did ask it would be MUCH easier to give them the nitty gritty right then. (That means we'd tell them the truth. Straight up.) They would likely be young enough to process what they could and disregard the rest. We imagined this would be much less embarrassing to have the conversation when they're young than when they're a little older, so after Rom asked the question it took Marie a minute but then she just laid it all out there. She used very correct words and described exactly how it all goes down. This was just fine for Rom and he was glad to know.
Lainey on the other hand said something like...
L - "Wait a second. Did YOU do that?"
M - "You mean to get you two kids? Yes, we did that." (she wasn't willing to commit to more than that in this particular context.)
L - "Mom, that is just freaky."

Lainey hasn't been too interested in talking about it since. Unfortunately Rom has been very interested in talking about it. He has told me at least three times exactly how babies are made and we learned a few weeks ago that during his weekly primary lesson the topic happen to be families. Romney promptly raised his hand and said, "I know how families are made!" He then explained it to the class in graphic detail. The just to be sure he explained it again because his classmates looked confused. Then, just for good measure, he explained it one more time just to be 100% sure everyone else knew that he knew where families come from. One teacher I think handled it pretty well. I think the other one may still be in shock. If any of you out there have a hard time talking to your kids about these sort of things just let us know. Some of you may even have older kids that refuse to talk to you about this sort of things. I once refused to go on a trip with my dad just because I was afraid he would try and talk to me about this. If you happen to have any of these problems, let us know. We would be happy to send Romney over and take care of it for you.