Uh...uh...

This was the conversation in our car last night. Zane and I were in the front seats, Wilson in the back.

Heather and Zane: chatting about nothing; bookcases, oil changes, work things, blah, blah, blah.

Wilson: "What is sperm?"

Silence

Heather: "Dad can sure answer that for you"

Zane: "Well, um...yeah, uh...well, sperm is what happens after...

Heather: "Try again."

Zane: "Well, sperm is when the egg and the..."

Heather: (really trying to hold in the laughter) "Nope."

Zane: silence

Poor Zane. I think he got caught off guard and thought he had to suddenly give a polished presentation of the birds and the bees. And poor Wilson. He has such a scientific and logical little mind, I'm sure he really just wanted to know what sperm was. Not what it does, or what it is for, or, Heaven forbid, where it comes from! We definitely need to work on our delivery.