Kids Say The Darndest Things

My son is quite the talker.  I would venture to say that he gets it naturally.  He talks about EVERYTHING!  He has the world's best memory and talks about things that happened months ago.  He sometimes starts telling me crazy stories at breakfast and I wonder to myself if he is describing some dream he had.  And then there are those times that he just talks about or says the most random, off the wall thing that completely catches you off guard and makes you crack up.

The other day the following conversation happened:

"Mommy, I have a belly button.  Yes.  That's right.  Where is your belly button?", he asks.

"It's under my shirt, buddy," I reply.

"Lift up your shirt!  I want to see it!", he says in a demanding voice.  So I lift up my shirt and show him my belly button.  I am amazed at his complete interest in my belly button and not my weird, jiggly, stretch-marked, baby battle-scarred belly.  Then he asks, "Does [my sister] have a belly button?"

"Yes dear, we all have belly buttons," I say matter-of-factly.

"Why don't we all have pee-pees?", he asks.  Pee-pee is what he calls his boy parts.  I know "they", the experts, frown upon the use of anything but the proper names for male and female anatomy with your children, but I much prefer he say pee-pee.  One, probably because I'm more comfortable saying that than penis to him and two, because I am certain that the moment I teach him what it is really called he'll embarrass me in public.  :)  But I digress.

"Because that's the way God made us.  God made boys with pee-pees and girls without,"  I say. 

At this point I feel as though the conversation is going well and I have answered his question in a simple, age appropriate manner.  And then he proceeds to say the craziest, most random thing ever.  "Yea, but daddy just said that you have a pee-pee.  Daddy just thought that.  Daddy's just silly," he says with a smile on his face.

It really shouldn't surprise me.  He always thinks it's funny to try to tell Anthony and I that my daughter and I have "pee-pees". He knows it isn't true, so for some reason, that makes it funny.  So I'm sure, to him, it would be even funnier if daddy said that.  I couldn't help but laugh. 

One thing is true, there is never a dull moment around here!

Sincerely,
The-M-O-M