Hotlanta

KC and I are in Atlanta for a few days, sans kids. It's very hot and humid, which I don't mind, but I miss the girls. Also, I'm a little afraid of what will happen while we're away.

Caroline, our former nanny now friend, is watching the girls overnight. I told her the vanoona story and she told me a story about how when her younger son was little he knew all the "official" terms for his genitalia. (She was a nurse in a former life.) Then she told me that one time Sophie was playing with a mirror at her house and had no pants on and discovered her lady parts.

sophie: whoa! what's that?

caroline: that's your vulva.

sophie: oh.

And that brings me to ask 2 questions:

1. Why was she "playing" with a mirror and no pants on?
2. Why "vulva"?

I don't even know the difference between a vulva and a vagina. Do we really need to distinguish it for my 4 year old? Am I going to come home to a lesson on the female anatomy compliments of Sophie?

Vanoona

It's been a long time since my last post, but something important has happened...Sophie has learned about her vagina. Here's how it went down:

[in the bathroom. Sohpie is on the potty.]

me: wipe in the front, please

[sophie looks confused and wipes erratically]

me: in the front

her: on my bottom

me: no, you wipe your bottom when you poop. when you go pee pee you wipe the front.

[sophie looks confused]

me: do you know what the front is called?

her: no

me: it's your vagina

[sophie mouths the word, trying to commit it to memory]

me: girls have vaginas. do you know what boys have?

her: yes

me: what?

her: a vanoona

Later that night, when she went to the bathroom before bed, she told me, "I'm going to wipe my little vagina!" Then she asked me if I had a big vagina. Both she and Ava were almost 9.5lbs, so I might've said, "Yes...thanks for that." But instead I told her that I have a "grown up vagina." That satisfied her.

The next day, she went to school talking about her Vacona. I warned her teacher, but nothing came of it.