So soon?

D and I were in the bath on Saturday, playing with his toys while I was surreptitiously trying to wash him and his hair (not his favourite thing).  Most of the bath toys are little animals that can squirt water.  He also has a traditional rubber ducky and a larger duck that suctions to the wall.

As he tends to do,  he began a skit where a baby is looking for its mommy (a common theme from Dora the Explorer).  The rubber duck was looking for its mommy.  It would ask the other animals and they would reply (through me) with “is that your mommy?” pointing to the duck on the wall.

After ten or so repetitions, it changed from “mommy” to “daddy”.  The duck would ask the animal “where’s my daddy” and the animals would reply (through me) “is that your daddy?” and point to the duck on the wall, but he would say “no”.  So the animals began to reply (through me) ”I don’t know where your daddy is”, or in later iterations “are you sure you have a daddy?  Maybe you have two mommies.”   After a few repetitions, when I replied to the duck (on behalf of the animals) he looked at the animals and said ” no, where’s MY daddy”  and pointed to himself.

My heart broke just a bit as I explained to him that he had two mommies instead of a mommy and a daddy.  I asked him what he would do with a daddy. He thought for a bit and said “play toys”.  ”Like you’re doing right now?” I asked but he had no answer for me.

I really didn’t expect this so soon, but I guess it would have come up within the next six months or so anyway.  I blame the fact that he likes to watch Finding Nemo – which is all about Nemo’s daddy trying to find him.  Thanks a lot, Disney.

 

 

 

 

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