Guest Post!!! Will "Discovers" Andrea is Pregnant

Friends of mine, Andrea and Tom, in our old Berg in Joisey have a very adorable, very witty, very smart little boy named Will. Andrea recently emailed me this sequence of events about how Will came to understand her pregnancy. It was too funny not to share.
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We were waiting as long as possible before telling Will, but the bugger was figuring it out on his own anyhow.

Before we told him:

"Mom, what does that expression, " 'you look like a million bucks', mean?"
Me: "It means you look great, like you could say that to Mommy." (fishing for a compliment)
Then, Will actually looks at me, and lands on my protruding belly.
"Mom, just how much sugar have you been eating lately? Because it is all starting to pile up."

A few days later:

"Mom, you look like you are going to have a baby. But, you're not." Scampers off.

A day later:
Will stuffs his stuffed racecar up his shirt and walks around the house. (Real subtle).

Then, the final straw:

He starts 'babyproofing' the kitchen "just in case". (Seriously). He takes a roll of scotch tape and starts covering the cabinet doors, for the "maybe, someday baby we might have." Which all leads to barracading his room (w/ batteries and wood blocks) AGAINST the baby we "maybe, someday might have."

O.K.

Then AFTER we tell him:

"Really? I don't believe you."
"A real baby?"
"Does he look like me?"
"I don't believe you."
Peppered with a few: "I'll mash the peas for him, although I won't eat any myself."
And the ever-popular: "Mom, you are going to have to swallow a mini Halloween costume for the baby to wear." (I explain that the baby isn't exactly in my stomach). "Well, then we will just cut a hole wherever, and get it to him." (Maybe showing Will his c-section birth picture was not the best idea).

But, then back to:
"Are you really sure? How do you know?"
"I don't believe you."

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I think Tom, being a very handy human, should install a porthole in Andrea's abdomen and be done with it...
Congrats to Andrea and Tom!!!