Cherries

Makenna loves cherries (well Makenna loves all food, but she REALLY loves cherries). She likes the independence of eating cherries and then spitting out the pit. The other night we are eating dinner and Makenna just starts crying so loud out of the blue. I assume she bit either her lip, cheek, finger, etc. and wants me to kiss it better.

She becomes hysterical and says, "I swallowed a seed." She was crying so hard, I barely could understand what she said. I thought maybe she was choking on it a little, so I said, well drink some water. But she wasn't choking, she was hysterical and through her huge tears asks, "Will it be there forever?"

"No, Makenna, it will come out."

through tears - "But how will it come out? Will it come out of my mouth?"

I should explain that at no point in her life has she questioned how food gets out of our body, nor has she asked what "poop" is. I was quite content with her not having this knowledge. But now was a teaching moment.

So then I try to explain the process in simple terms as Christian is looking at me with that How-are-you-going-to-explain-this-one look. She, of course, has a million questions and alternates between crying and quizzing me. She was still quite upset about swallowing it and worried it would never come out. I told her it would probably be gone in about 2 days.

When Nana Taylor came over later she told Nana that ice cream would make it feel better.

So today, 2 days later, she wakes up in the morning (she has been talking about this incident constantly) and the first thing she tells me is, "I think it's gone today." I guess she missed the point of my explanation!