"Mommeh, when you go to heaven, who's going to be my mommeh?"

BubblyToes

OMG. 

Not ready for that conversation.  I just told him I would always be his mommeh.  

 

4Speedy

Will just turned 4, right?  Yep--time for the fascination with dying and heaven to start.  DD has been talking about it for about a year now.  She recently asked, "When I die, where will daddy bury me?"

Sweet and morbid all at once.  Even with all of her obsessive thinking about death, it has never crossed her mind that her parents might die before her.   As far as she is concerned, we will take care of her until the day she dies.  (Her plan to marry her brother and have him him build her a house in our backyard that looks exactly like our house is another story.)

4Speedy

What's up with the new ticker?

BubblyToes

LOL

Just an attempt at humor.

4Speedy

I thought perhaps you had an infantile inlaw or one of M's frat brothers move in and he was now refusing to leave.

wildfloweragain

DD has been bringing up the subject as well.  When talking about how we'll love each other our whole lives, etc. she said "Well, YOUR whole life, but not mine.  When I grow up you'll be dead."  As matter of fact as can be.  Yikes.

 

Also we just got Charlotte's web on netflix, so they have had the lifecycle talk again lately.  And DD wants to know if she will pass Heaven on the way to work when she grows up (She wants to be an astronaut.)

july05bride2

yup...4 years old.  i have been having that conversation for the last few months.  it all started when we were on our way to the cemetery to visit my mom and rachel started to ask why she died.  and so since then she asks at least once a week about death and me dying and going to heaven.  i believe in honesty but to an extent with a 4 year old.

lsufan

Evan started asking questions about death right after he turned 4.  My personal favorite is, "Mommy, if all of your boys died, would you still be a mommy?"  And the most recent was, "I'll miss you when you die, even if you were a little bossy."