Oh Boys

Last night Silas and I were going through his body parts, he was listing them and pointing to them and I was getting him to try and say them properly. Sometimes he would point to my equivalent body part and say, "Mama too?". So we went through the face, the upper body, and next he went to bum and penis. When I said, "No Mama does not have a penis, Mama is a girl." He said, "Oh. Daddy too? Ezra too?". "Yes", I said, "Daddy and Ezra are boys so they have a penis like Silas."  He then went and listed a few other names of boys he knows (he does quite well with gender differentiation), threw a couple of girls names in their to tease me, and then he paused, caulked his head sideways, looked at me questioningly and said, "Wee-ooo-wee-ooo?". This is his word for fire truck. So I asked him, to clarify, "Are you asking mommy if a fire truck has a penis?". He answered yes and then proceeded to show me his finger waving back and forth and making a spraying noise. Then he said, "Ladder too." Our toy fire truck has two hoses, one on the ladder, one on the truck. So then I had to explain that the fire truck did not have a penis, but a hose for water. Yes, his penis is kind of like a hose too, but for pee not water. Only people and animals have penises, trucks and houses have hoses. 

A conversation I never thought I'd have.