Thursday, May 14, 2009

hmm, I really like cheese and everything, but no.

Hannah: Mom, what's cheese made out of?
Me: Milk, usually from cows, but goat cheese is made of goat's milk.
Hannah: Oh, and when you have a baby and the baby drinks your milk you can make it into cheese for babies and the babies can eat umm...ummm...human cheese, right?
Me: Well, babies don't eat cheese, and while you can probably make cheese from human milk, I'm unaware of anyone doing so.
Hannah: Why?
Me: I'm not sure really, but when you have a baby, they just want the milk and you don't really have extra to be making into cheese.
Hannah: Do boys have milk?
Me: Nope, only women make milk, with their breasts.
Hannah: and boys don't have breasts.
Me: Nope, just women.
Hannah: And women are Mommies.
Me: If they have children they're Mommies.
Hannah: and what if they don't have children?
Me: Then they're women, but not Mommies.
Hannah: So after they have children, women are Mommies.
Me: Well, they're still women, they're just women AND Mommies.
Hannah: What about Daddies?
Me: What about them? Boys become men, and if they have children, they're also called Daddies.
Hannah: But boys can't be Mommies.
Me: No, Mommies are women.
Hannah: and women can't be Daddies.
Me: No.
Hannah: because women have uteruseses and vaginas and men have penises but we both have urethras and bladders and bowels.
Me: Yes, you are absolutely correct.
*she pats me on the leg and smiles*
Hannah: This is your femur.
Me: Yes baby, I know.