Papaya Mom

“I see you” she sings as she looks at me through the window, excitement bubbling. We’ve just spent almost an hour playing in the shower, one of our favorite pastimes. Both of us, five shower heads streaming down at different angles and a few cups - paradise. One shower head hit high above us against the glass creating a water wall to play with, others mini showers and places to fill our cups with water.

We washed a bit, but mostly we learned about water and ourselves. “Elbow” she says, then “Elbow in water” as she dunks it into her plastic coffee cup, finding it quicly stuck. “Stuck!” she exclaimes and lets it loose without knowing what she’s done.

“Knee”, she says pointing to her thigh. “No sweetie, that’s your thigh, thigh, knee, thigh, knee” I whisper back to her. “Thighknee” she says running her hand from her thigh to her knee, well, at least its a start.

For the first time in many of our games of NAME THAT PART she wanted to know about our special parts. Um, I really did think I had a few more years before the birds and the bees. “Vagina”, “Boobie” and “Nipple” are our new words, oh how fun it will be to see where those words come up. I can’t wait until she points at Daddy some day and says “Vagina” and he has to explain that he has something oh so very different.

Now she’s rocking her puzzles and I’m blogging - oh what a nice afternoon (apart from my pounding sinus headache and need to sleep).

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