Too early for "the talk?"

Paige was talking to the kids tonight at bedtime. She relays what she describes as a "horrible experience:"

Paige: "Mom and Dad pray for you all the time, that you will grow up to be mommies and daddies who love Jesus." Etc...

Ella, at this point, burst into sobs and crawled under her covers...

Paige: "Honey, what one earth is wrong?"

Ella, sobbing: "I DON"T WANT TO BE A MOMMY!!!!"

Paige: "Why not?"

Ella, still sobbing: "I don't want to be cut open and milk them!!!"

Hmmmmm. Maybe showing them the videos of them being born (by c-section) was a mistake...

[Paige clarifies my transcription of her story at this point that it was me, not her, who thought the kids would find the videos of their c-section births fascinating.]

Paige then tried to back out of that one, telling Ella that she didn't have to be a mommy, or get cut open, or... milk anybody. She also explained that some babies drink from a bottle and never "get milked," just like her cousins Isaac and Max. She also explained that most mommies don't get cut open to have babies.

Being a smart little whippersnapper, and deducing that if mommy doesn't get cut open, that baby must get out somehow...

Ella, sobs subsiding: "Then how do the babies get out?"

Oh boy...

Paige: "Ummmmm, through a special opening called the birth canal."

Ella: "Does that hurt?"

Paige: "No, they can give you medicine so you don't feel anything. Mommy couldn't even feel her toes."

Giggles all around...

Ella: "And some babies you don't have to milk? Ever???? Then what do they eat?"

This kid is obviously not going to be joining the La Leche League of Militant Milking Mommies when she has babies...

Paige: "Nope. Not if you don't want to. You can feed them formula."

Paige quickly changed the topic before anyone could start to ask where, exactly, the birth canal is.