there's just one thing I don't understand...

Ok, this is a story that I've been meaning to post about for awhile now, but just haven't had the time to sit down and write it out. So, I'm starting it now - hope to get it all out there soon! ;)

In any case, mr. man is in 5th grade and they just had their "this is what's happening to your bodies" talk at school. It was a 2 day event, the boys and girls meet separately and for about 40 minutes each day. The first day was all about hygiene and how to take care of your, growing and changing bodies. The second day was the "where babies come from" speech - but was a very high overview. So as a young, and totally hip and cool mom (sure), I wanted to make sure he knew that he could come and talk to me about this stuff. That if he had any questions about any of this, we would help him with them and all of that. I want my kids to be able to come and ask us ANYTHING. So, after the second day, we're driving home from wrestling practice and I was asking about what all they had talked about - blah, blah, blah. He was telling me that he knew how babies were made now, that the sperm fertilized the egg and then it turned into a baby. So, very good - "do you have any more questions about that?" Well... yeah, "there's just one thing that I don't understand...how does the sperm get inside the woman to get to the egg in the first place???"
WHAT? They skipped that part? SERIOUSLY???!! That's the main part, how do they skip that stuff? So, very calmly and extremely casually (whatever) I'm trying to explain well.... you see... it's like, umm.... OK - well... Here it is. "the man actually puts his penis inside of the woman's vagina and then the sperm gets to the egg" so that's how it happens.
The look of sheer horror on his face - "are you serious?"
I said, "yes - that's what sex is, that's what people do to make babies."
He ponders for a minute and says "so you're trying to make a baby then?" OMG! I'm trying to still keep the car on the road as the prospect of that is overwhelming me. ROFL.
"Um, NO - I'm not trying to make a baby."
"Well, you and daddy have sex all of the time - I hear you."
"OK, well sex is also something married people just do."
He seemed ok then with my answers and didn't have anymore questions... So, OK that's good. Then we had the discussion that he was not to really talk about this kind of stuff with his friends and all that - cuz they're parents might not want them to know as much as he knows and etc... (Yeah right, how many of us didn't talk about it with our friends!?)

WOW. I'm not sure, but I think I passed the first big mommy test. Good lord - it's getting more and more difficult the older they get. What's next???