The Curiosity of an Almost-6-Year-Old

Violet asks a lot of great questions. Recently, we had to work through the following:
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? She reasoned that the egg had to have come first. When I asked her who laid the egg, well, you get the picture...she grinned at the whole conundrum, but then tidied things up by declaring that it was the egg, and that was that.

Then came, "Mommy, how do you start to get pregnant?" Oh boy. After some honest discussion and carefully couching the "and don't go telling all of your friends this, because diferent families have different ideas about what kids know about these kinds of things," I think I, at some point, pulled a Sarah Palin, "I'll get back to you on that." Aw geez.

That was followed, not five minutes later by, "What was the name of the first month?" such that we had to research the age of the earth, etc.

My brain is tired and it isn't even noon on a Sunday yet.