It all began on a normal day, this one was doing that and that one was doing this.. and so on. And then Spencer came to me with a look of pain, Kendal stepped on my penis. To which Kendal replied, No, he stepped on my penis. Not being quite sure how to comfort Spencer I began to explain to Kendal that she didn't have a penis, girls have vagina's. I usually wait a little longer but I felt that she needed to know. Since this day Kendal has voiced much confusion, Do I have a penis or that other word? Is our dog a penis? You mean, is our dog a boy? Oh, yeah, a boy with a penis. I can't decide if this is an improvement from the question, which is this my privacy or my butt? Just call them both your privacy's. O.K., my privacy hurts. Of course now I have to ask which one. To which she points and says is this privacy the butt one. Now her being the fourth of four children I have had a bit of practice with privacy talks. To Spencer an innocent Kindergartner the word penis was learned at school. Shame on us for not teaching him sooner. So we sat him down and told him that boys have penises and girls have vagina's. To which he replied, VA-GI-NA, hmm sounds Chinese and with that his dad and I let him walk away hollering behind him don't talk about it at school. Now Maggie had some questions of her own, Why is the word penis so fun to say if you shouldn't say it very much? I had no reply, for I do believe if it was not the word for the private area of a boy it could be a good name for a pet. Sometimes I think it would have been better if we just kept the whole thing a "privacy" and then I remember that one time in the car. On our way somewhere, an ad came on the radio for a new restaurant in Scottsdale it was a fancy restaurant that provided a lot of "privacy". To which a young Matthew questioned, Why does the restaurant sell privacy's and who would want one? Hmmm, so smart that boy is! So I end these ramblings on with this last comment from the horse stables. Man, that one must be a boy. Yeah, I think he is the "Italian Stallion". Oh, where did I go wrong?
