Is It Still Brown?

For anyone that knows me, they know that diversity is a passion for me. It has played such a huge role in my life and I knew as soon as I got pregnant with Lito, that my kids would be exposed to lots of it!

Ever since Lito started talking, we have made it a point to talk about skin color. You see, my husband is African American and I'm Central American ... so our differences are very obvious! One day Danny (my husband) was teaching Lito colors and he would point to our shirts, our shoes, our hair, etc and eventually he pointed to our skin. We were so impressed that he was learning to see Daddy as brown and Mommy as beige (I know, I know, I'm more Ivory but we won't go there yet!!).

It's been a few months since we've discussed skin color and we don't really dwell on it so it hadn't crossed my mind again until this last week. Lito was having a day ... he gets jealous of his baby sister every now and then and he refuses to nap (because when Leila goes to sleep, he enjoys his alone time with Mommy and Daddy!). One particular night last week, he was exhausted and he just refused to take a nap. He finally had had enough of his sister having all the attention so he decided to throw a hissy fit! He started to cry very loudly and proceeded to throw himself on the carpet! What he didn't plan on was a hard toy being in the way of his fall ....

Poor thing, he fell on a hard red fire truck toy and it hit the small of his back and most of his bottom. I could tell it really hurt! I heard it and saw it, I was expecting the worst. I hand off Leila to Danny and pull Lito across my lap to check out the damage. As I'm making sure he's okay, Lito is full of questions!

"Is it hurt?"
"Is it bleeding?"
"Is there a scratch?"

But nothing could have prepared me for his next question:

"Is it still brown?!?!"

I couldn't believe it, my son was worried that he had scraped the brown off his skin!! I think we laughed for the rest of the night about it!! Needless to say, he forgot about his temper tantrum :)