easier than i thought

On Sunday the social worker is coming to interview us and see if we are family material. As part of the process, she needs to talk to the Ubergoober, which kind of surprised me. But he is of an age where he can - and does - speak his mind.

The only problem is that we really hadn't told the Ubergoober about the adoption. We've always told him that Nature Boy adopted him and we explained what that meant, but we never bothered to tell him that the adoption wasn't legal.

So tonight I sat Goober down and had a talk. I told him that a social worker would be coming to the house on Sunday to talk to us because Daddy was going to be adopting him legally.

"So what does that mean?" he asked.

"Well, it means that Daddy loves you and..."

"He wants to be my Daddy and love me forever?" Goober asked.

"Exactly. It's just that right now even though he's your daddy now, there was someone else who was your daddy before..."

"What was his name?"

"That's not important right now. He was sick and couldn't take care of you. So he left..."

"Where did he go?"

"Umm... he moved to a different town."

"Which one?"

"Again, not important. So Daddy came and now we're going to make it so that everyone knows he's your daddy and he's going to be your only daddy."

"Okay."

"Any other questions?"

"How long will the social worker be here?"

"About an hour."

"Can we go for a bike ride after that?"

"Umm... sure."

"Okay. Can I read until bedtime?"

"Absolutely."

Man, I love this kid.