Since Bug was feeling kind of crummy from the flu shot, I let her stay home even though there was no snow.

Bug’s running commentary through “Adoption Story” on the Discovery Channel.

Announcer: The couple longed for a child

Bug: Like me!

Announcer: After trying for almost year, they turned to medical help.

Bug: Ohhh..

Announcer: They discovered that Bob’s sperm was abnormal.

Bug: Well, why didn’t they just buy donated sperm?

Announcer: So the couple turned to artificial insemination. When that didn’t work, they tried in-vitro fertilization. During in-vitro fertilization…

Bug: This isn’t going to work. Otherwise they wouldn’t call it adoption story.

Announcer: When the test came back negative, Mary made a decision.

Bug: I told you.

Announcer: The couple decided to pursue an open adoption. An open adoption is when..

Bug: DUH. We already know.

Adoption lawyer: We can’t be mad at a woman for deciding to parent a child. That is her right.

Bug: Yeah! She just wanted to keep her baby! That is OK. If she is a good mommy anyway.

Announcer: So the couple turned to international adoption.

Bug: International means a different country.

Me: Yes.

Dad: All we really knew about her was that she had been abandoned.

Bug: Was I an international adoption?

Me: Huh? No silly. What country do you come from?

Bug: I mean, did my social worker find babies in other countries?

Me: No, she just did foster care.

Bug: How come those people didn’t just adopt in the first place instead of messing with the sperm?

Me: Well, a lot of people think it is important to have a biological connection to their child.

Bug: Me and you are not biology.

Me: No, we aren’t.

Bug: My birthmom is biology with me.

Me: Yes.

Bug: Just because you aren’t biology doesn’t mean you can’t be a family.

Me: That is true. Adoption can also be expensive so some people don’t like that.

Bug: Is the sperm and the egg in the jar expensive?

Me: Yes. But sometimes women want to be able to experience being pregnant.

Bug: I don’t! Because babies look gross when they come out and they come out of your privates anyway and that is SO GROSS.

Bug: Look, they are getting babies from another country too.

Me: That is Korea.

Bob: We will get information about their birth families, but that is not something you share with other people before you share it with your kids. That will be their information when they are older.

Bug: I get some information now and some when I am older too!

Me: Yes.

Bug: How come I didn’t get to be on this Adoption Story show?

Me: I don’t know.

Bug: If people saw me, they would want to adopt. I am precious.

Me: That is true.

Bug: This show is kind of dumb. I could have wrote it. I know all about sperm and biology and adoption anyway. They should pay me to make this show. I would call it “Bug’s Adoption Show” and it would mostly be about me, but sometimes we would show people from other adoptions and maybe some stuff about Hannah Montana and Gone with the Wind. But it would mostly be about me. That’s all people are interested in anyway.

Me: You are probably right.

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