Mummy, what's an ingesta (from June 23rd, 2008)

Questions. Kidlets are full of them, aren't they? And they ask the most poigniant of them at the strangest time. Case in point:

I had dropped my kidlets off at their grandparent's house while I went to a PSSC meeting. It's after 9pm and I have to work in the morning so I'm rushing the kids out of mum's house and into the car. We're driving home when Ryan asks me:

'Mummy....what's an ingesta?'

'A what??', I ask?

'An ingesta', he repeats. 'What is it'

'Um, I'm not sure what you mean, baby.'....and I'm a little afraid to ask.

'You know, what girls pee out of'

*****Light bulb goes on above my head******

'Uh...where did you hear about those?' I ask, instantly wondering why my mother, who just spent 2 hours with the kids, would mention anything about a vagina. She still refers to penises as 'ding dongs'.

'We took it in school', he says.

'Oh, okay. Well, sweetie...it's called a vagina and it's not where the girl pees out of.' --- insert deep breath here --- 'Girls have 3 holes: One to pee out of, One to give birth to babies and One to poop.'

'So, they don't pee out of their vagina?'

'No'"

"They pee outof their pee hole?"

"And babies come out of the ingesta?"

"The vagina, yes"

"But we came out of your belly...not your va-...vagina?"

Oh, my GOD!!!

"Because that route wasn't working"

"We were too big, right Mummy?"

"No...but I promise to explain why you didn't come out of my vagina some other time."

"Okay. Do we get a bedtime snack?"

Sweet Mary, mother of GOD!!!