Zoee has recently discovered that she has "private parts". And that she does not, in fact, have a penis like Owyn. I decided it was time to finally tell her what she actually does have.
Zoee: (Sitting on the floor, naked after a bath, looking at her bottom)
Me: Zoee, those are your private parts. Do you know what they are called?
Zoee: You mean my butt?
Me: Well, yes, you have a butt. Do you know what else you have?
Zoee: A penis.
Me: No, boys have a penis. You are a girl. Yours is called a vagina (I really do not like that word, by the way).
Zoee: Oh, I know that! That where the Herkelmans live!
Me: No, that's called CHINA. The Herkelmans live in China.
Zoee: That what I said, Jina.
Me: (struggling to not laugh). Yes, the Herkelmans live in China and you have a vagina.
Zoee: (Looking up at me with a furrowed brow in extreme concentration) Wait, the Herkelmans live in my butt?
I called Becky to tell her this story and assure her that Zoee thinks of them often, even when they are all the way over there in "Jina".
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