Makela Hatches Another Question

Another day, another amazing question. Well, it was actually yesterday, but here's the story.

Makela bounded into our room yesterday morning and jumped on the bed. Daddy was wearing his old, favorite t-shirt with the sharks on it. Although Makela knows what it says, she asked about it again. Daddy told her: "Guess which one's the lawyer?" Then Makela pointed to the one wearing the tie and said: "Dat one." After a long enough pause to make us think she had moved on to another line of thought, Makela came out of left field with the following question.

"Daddy, do sharks hatch or are dey born?"

After Joe picked his jaw up off the covers, he looked at her and said, "That's a really good question. Both, actually. Some sharks hatch out of eggs, and some are born live. It just depends on what kind of shark it is."

Not to be sidetracked, Makela then pointed to Daddy's t-shirt and asked, "Which kind are dese?"

"I think these are born alive, Makela."

While Makela definitely surprised us, she has been really interested in learning about different animals this week. We checked out a book called "Verdi" by Janell Cannon, who also wrote the classic "Stellaluna". It's all about a baby python that grows up but doesn't grow old, and the back includes information on how snakes hatch. And I had a big conversation about birds and how they hatch out of eggs. As an aside/one final note, Makela also asked me while looking at the windshield from her carseat yesterday, "Mommy, why do birds poop in the sky?"