It's all becoming clearer...

I can see that Mack is thinking hard about this little brother thing. Every day she asks new , very smart questions , trying to piece together this " mommy's growing a baby thing" . Every week I get a video update of how baby is doing in my belly sent to my phone and Mack has really liked learning about her baby brother this way. Today she learned that he now has eye lashes! Here are a few of the questions shes' asked:

Where does the " extension cord " ( umbilical cord) plug in? Is it metal? Does it sting him?
- I explained her little brother has an umbilical cord that goes from me to him and works kind of like a squishy straw, letting him get all of the vitamins he needs from me. She surmised that's why I need so much carrot cake.

When the baby comes out, will he come out through your belly?
-Yes. Mommy and daddy will go to the doctor who will help us get baby brother out. Since we have to make sure everything is ok, mommy, daddy and baby all stay at the hospital for a few days. Grams is going to come to our house and stay with you. ( This resulted in lots of exciting hooting and hollering and requests to buy a tent. )

Why does the baby live in water? Is he a fish? ( Makes fishy lips)
-No but he doesn't know how to breath just like us just yet so he gets his air through the umbilical cord until his lungs grow stronger. Then he can come out. The water around him helps keep him safe,too.

Why does he kick you? It's not ok to KICK!
-He doesn't have a lot of room in there so he isn't really " kicking" me, just bumping into me when he's moving around.

She also mentioned that when she needs to give her baby brother a bath, she'll be sure to add lots of bubbles to the water so that he doesn't fall over and bonk his head.

It brings tears to my eyes to see her getting excited about actually having a little brother and not just excited that she now has a new room with " new" toys to play with. Over the last week, she's spent nearly an hour a day playing with all of her old toys and inventing new games to play, or simply running between her room and the nursery.