Our Talk About Death

Many months ago, we first brought up the concept of death and dying with Evan. He was fooling around on the stairs and could not grasp how dangerous the situation was. So Pops told him he could fall down and die. Evan didn't understand this new word so Poppa put it all into perspective for him: "If you keep fooling around on the stairs, you're going to fall down and die. When you die, you don't get to see Momma anymore." Evan was so shocked at this concept of No Momma, he started to cry... but he doesn't fool around on the stairs anymore.

Yesterday we were talking in the car and the topic of death came up again. Evan tried to run into the road and Poppa told him No. Evan tried to explain to me why he ran into the road. "Evan run into the road and then a car is going to hit Evan. But that's ok, because Evan is a doctor, so Evan can fix Evan all up." I told Evan, "But what if Evan died?" And Evan replied, "Evan come back as a robot... A BLUE robot."