Having boy/girl twins, I knew from the start they were going to learn about anatomy before most kids. You remember the opening scene in "Kindergarten Cop"? Where the 5 year old boy states "Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina;" well, that was my kids...at 2 years old! Since they share a room and bathe together, we made a decision from the beginning that we were going to call body parts by their "real" names and not use the "cutesy" names people come up with. Perhaps we thought this would prevent future giggles?
I nursed the twins for 12 months. Needless to say, CJ likes boobs. Sure, it was cute when he was little and he would rest his head on my friends' chests with his hands convienently cupping their boobs. We didn't think twice about it. Then he sees Tinkerbell for the first time and what does he say? "Tinkerbell has boobs!" A couple of years pass and I have the twins with me at Fit Body Bootcamp. They brought their cameras with them to play games on while I worked out. Afterwards I asked what games they were playing. CJ answers "I was taking pictures of the women's boobs as they bounced." And so it begins...or rather continues on!
Today KC comes up to me and tells me that CJ "kicked her in the balls." I take a deep breath and tell her that girls don't have balls, only boys do. To which she replies "Why do boys have balls?" Ummm, why is my husband always at work when these type of questions get asked?? Before I could answer, she states "They have balls to keep their penises straight." Yeah, that is definitely a conversation RJ can have with them when he gets home from work!
I'm reminded of a day when the twins were about 12 months old. I couldn't find them and they were being quiet (every mom knows this means trouble!). Finally I spot them in the corner of my bedroom. CJ is holding his diaper down while KC is playing with his "boy part." They are both giggling as they watched it bounce up and down. And so the anatomy lessons began...
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