I love conversations with five year olds. This one was prompted by me emerging from the shower.
5-yo: Mama, ladies who have had babies don’t look so good in bikinis as ladies who haven’t had babies, do they?
Me: That's true, they don't.
5-yo: Why don't they?
Me: Well, their tummies get stretched by the baby growing inside. [Pause, but 5-yo seemed to expect more] I suppose different things seem important at different stages of your life. And I suppose you have to make decisions about what you want to do. For me, having children was much more fun than looking good in a bikini [which I don't think I ever did anyway. Ed.] What do you think?
5-yo: [confidently] I’m going to do both.
Me: Well, perhaps you'll be one of the lucky ones. There are some...
But I said that to her departing back, as she was already skipping away to whatever had next caught her five year old interest.
Hilarious! I hope she doesntfind adopt of US magazine with Kate gosslin in her bikini on the cover or you'll have to start explaining cosmetic surgery!
ReplyDeleteSo funny.
ReplyDeleteI still wear a bikini, but look a little bit better now then I did the year before I got pregnant.
I just wrote a 6-yo conversation post.
Children say the funniest of things.
x jo
They light upon ideas like Butterfiles don't they?
ReplyDeleteI can relate to this conversation! This was cute.
ReplyDeleteV funny. Where do they get these things from?
ReplyDelete(I wonder if Liz Hurley said the same thing at age five?)
That is hilarious. I want to do both, too. (It's always good to have some aspirations...)
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