Oh, Liam!

Liam was sitting next to me in the garden the other day while I worked on the foundation for our future chicken coop. He had a large metal cover that he'd covered with dirt, and then he asked me to come over and see what he'd made.

"See, mom, pretend this dirt is the houses. Then, pretend my breath is the tornado. When I breathe, all the dirt gets blown away, just like a tornado blows away houses!" Liam has a fear/fascination with tornadoes right now, and apparently building a tornado simulator is part of that!!

Science Fair, here we come!

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Ellie was just spayed yesterday, and in preparing the boys for her surgery we tried to explain why we were doing it. We talked about how many dogs and cats are in the world without homes, and how letting Ellie have babies wouldn't be responsible of us. Both boys were confused and thought that the doctor was going to remove babies that were already in Ellie's belly! We had to explain again that she didn't have babies in her belly, and it takes a boy dog and a girl dog to make puppies.

You can see where this is going... :)

Liam said, "So, like, when a boy dog gets close to a girl dog and touches her, something MAGIC happens?"

HAHAHAHAHAHA. We laughed about that for about an hour.

We explained the process in a very basic form to him, and then he ran off to swordfight with Maxwell.

Oh, Lord.

(Ellie is fine, still sore, but bouncing back quickly!)