Sunday, March 29, 2009

How babies are made

This morning I heard a very interesting conversation between my Mom and 4 year old Hayden. My children were all upstairs with my mom having breakfast when I headed up the stairs. I paused at the bottom when I heard them talking about a new baby. My mom had been telling them about how women in Africa had all but given their little ones to my sister Elizabeth to bring back home. We could of gave Brad and Angelina a run for their money if she could of brought all of them home. So they were talking about what it would be like to have more people in the family. Hayden said he wants a baby brother, everyone agreed that would be great. Then Hayden said," If I let my mom exercise then I can get a baby brother." I was laughing at the bottom of the stairs, I can only imagine what kind of exercising my Mom was thinking about. She commented," I'm not sure that's how you get a baby." Hayden insisted that if he left me alone when I was trying to get some exercise then I would have a baby. I decided it was time to interrupt before my mom thought Hayden had seen or knew way to much. His comment came from a conversation we had the night before. For those of you who might not know I suffer from PCOS(poly cystic ovarian syndrome). This disease that causes you not to ovulate has been the reason we don't have any more children. PCOS is kind of like diabetes, you can have it all of your life, or in my case, it can be brought on by weight gain. The doctors have suggested taking of the weight would be healthy for me all around. Now trying to exercise when you have children is difficult. I try to get on the treadmill in the mornings, but I am often interupted by one little boy named Hayden. He want's a toy, he wants a drink or snack, he wants the channel changed on the T.V. and so on. This is how we got on the subject of letting me exercise. He siad he really wants a baby brother and so I told him he could help by letting me exercise. All inoccent in nature!! It sure was funny to explain to my mom.

1 comment:

Brown Family said...

HILARIOUS!!! Have you seen the Raymond where Marie is disgusted by Robert's exercise machine? Maybe that's the same as your treadmill ...

Have you tried medication for PCOS? I have two friends who have had success w/it, but I don't remember what it's called ... I'll find out for you in case you haven't tried it.

Good luck w/the exercising. It's soooo hard w/kids! But helping them understand will hopefully make them more cooperative ...