This is a conversation I had with my 3yr old daughter some time ago. I thought it was too good to not share it with you!

Daughter: "Mommy, how did I push the blue button on my bouncer seat when I was a baby?"

She was referring to this button on her bouncer seat that you could push to activate the lights and sounds. It's mainly so that parents can push it and get their babies all hyped up, without having to bounce the seat for them.

Me: "You didn’t have to. You just had to bounce the bouncer seat, and the lights would flash and music would play."

Daughter: "But how did I bounce the bouncer seat if I had no legs?"

Me: "What?!?"

I didn't understand what she meant!

Daughter: "The picture of me when I was a baby… I had no legs."

She was referring to her hospital picture, taken the day after delivery. It was a shot of her from the waist up, so you couldn’t see her legs. She assumed that she had no legs because she didn’t see any. Of course, it didn’t help that a while back, when she first saw the picture, that she had asked her dad where her legs were and he told her that she had none. They grew later.

As funny as it was, she was very serious and was honestly trying to figure out how a baby bounces if they had no legs to bounce with. So I ended up having to explain that daddy was just teasing her; she had legs when she was a a baby. Then I showed her a picture of her & I, one we took just a week ago, and asked her if she could see our legs. She said no, and I then asked her if we had legs, and she figured it out.

The moral of the story is…

Don’t believe everything your father tells you, and DADs don’t know everything! ;)