Girl bits and boy bits
I feel the need to share this little tidbit of toddler parenting.
As most of you know, Rowan was there for the birth of his brother. He has started occasionally talking about it recently. Nothing more than "you were in the pool with my brother" and the like. He's obviously processing what he saw, etc.
Fast forward to now. Corbin has taken to pooing after I get his night nappy off of him in the morning. Four days in a row, I got the night nappy off, went to put it in the bucket and came back to him happily kicking around in a mess. Lovely. I decided to preempt the mess the other morning and do a little elimination communication with him. So, I took his nappy off and proceeded to hold him over a bucket for him to do his morning poo. The bucket I grabbed happened to be the bucket that I had birthed the placenta into after Corbin's birth. I didn't even think of that when I grabbed it. Rowan, however, remembered. What followed was this lovely conversation:
Rowan: You made a placenta in the bucket.
Me: Oh, yes, I did birth the placenta in this bucket.
Rowan: You put your penis in the bucket and made a placenta!
Me: Well, I had the placenta in this, yes, but I don't have a penis.
Rowan: Yes you do! You have a big penis! (hhmm, not sure whether I should be flattered by that)
I LOLed. What followed was an explanation of how girls/women have vaginas and boys/men have penises. The girl/woman and boy/man thing was a little too complicated, though. Perhaps we need to stick to boys and girls for now. And I suppose I should get technical about the rest of the girly bits instead of calling it all a "vagina" when it is clearly made up of lots of things (vagina, vulva, etc). But then, he doesn't have one and I don't really want him being too familiar with one for quite some time, yk?
Oh, and as an aside, why is the spell check on this underlining "vaginas" as if it is mispelled but "penises" is ok? How DOES one spell the plural of "vagina" anyway?
As most of you know, Rowan was there for the birth of his brother. He has started occasionally talking about it recently. Nothing more than "you were in the pool with my brother" and the like. He's obviously processing what he saw, etc.
Fast forward to now. Corbin has taken to pooing after I get his night nappy off of him in the morning. Four days in a row, I got the night nappy off, went to put it in the bucket and came back to him happily kicking around in a mess. Lovely. I decided to preempt the mess the other morning and do a little elimination communication with him. So, I took his nappy off and proceeded to hold him over a bucket for him to do his morning poo. The bucket I grabbed happened to be the bucket that I had birthed the placenta into after Corbin's birth. I didn't even think of that when I grabbed it. Rowan, however, remembered. What followed was this lovely conversation:
Rowan: You made a placenta in the bucket.
Me: Oh, yes, I did birth the placenta in this bucket.
Rowan: You put your penis in the bucket and made a placenta!
Me: Well, I had the placenta in this, yes, but I don't have a penis.
Rowan: Yes you do! You have a big penis! (hhmm, not sure whether I should be flattered by that)
I LOLed. What followed was an explanation of how girls/women have vaginas and boys/men have penises. The girl/woman and boy/man thing was a little too complicated, though. Perhaps we need to stick to boys and girls for now. And I suppose I should get technical about the rest of the girly bits instead of calling it all a "vagina" when it is clearly made up of lots of things (vagina, vulva, etc). But then, he doesn't have one and I don't really want him being too familiar with one for quite some time, yk?
Oh, and as an aside, why is the spell check on this underlining "vaginas" as if it is mispelled but "penises" is ok? How DOES one spell the plural of "vagina" anyway?