I've written before about Hope's interest in and surprising understanding of the whole 'baby-growing-in-my-belly' process. She talks about the baby all the time, usually to do with how she'll help me take care of him when he "comes out." She also likes to feel him kick, which happens a lot, and she has told me on occasion that he's wearing socks in there - wouldn't that be a trick! Most days she also tries to get her legs inside my shirt so she can wriggle them around and say it's the baby kicking. Nutty.
Now that I'm seeing the OB more regularly, she's had to come with me to a few appointments. She hasn't been since we had that sonogram way back, but has pretended to give me a sonogram several times a week since. Now she adds peeing in a cup, laying on the exam table ("changing pad" as she says), and listening to the baby's heartbeat to our pretend, at-home OB visits.
And, oh-by-the-way, apparently she's not the first or last kid to want to leave a urine sample in a cup of her very own for the nurses. They are very obliging :)
She's far more able to communicate her thoughts, ask coherent questions, and absorb everything now so it shouldn't surprise me that she's taking all this OB stuff in. Nevertheless, when I don't realize that she's paying attention and then she regurgitates an advanced medical concept over a week later ... that's surprising.
What happened is that we went to visit our friend Jen and her adorable new baby Sayer in the hospital. Hope was happily playing with Jen's older children while Jen filled me in on the details of her C-section. Yesterday, many days since our hospital visit, Hope and I were playing Play-Doh. I rolled a bunch of white play-doh out flat with the rolling pin, and Hope asked for her plastic knife. I thought she'd just make random cuts and jabs in it. I did NOT expect her to cut a straight line, spread the 'incision,' and say "I taking baby Sayer out!"
I have seriously got to watch what I talk about in her presence, and I have seriously got to start saving for her to go to medical school.
3 comments:
She is CLEARLY a brainiac!
She is so much like you were - smart, opinionated, sensitive, affectionate..........
It's going to get very interesting when Hope wants to see your incision! I can just imagine all the questions a baby BOY is going to inspire, too.
That is hilarious, amazing and kind of scary all at the same time. Way to go Hope!
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