Biology, According to Ethan

As per usual, Ethan asked me how I was feeling today after I picked him up from school.  I told him that I was a little sore and that the baby was jumping on my bladder.  In fact, she has spent a lot of time on my bladder today. I hope she finds a new favorite spot. Quickly.

Ethan then said with surprise, "But... girls don't have bladders!"  I was pretty surprised by this since he is so "with-it" about things, but I guess the anatomy of humans has escaped his grasp. I should be grateful I suppose.

I sort of laughed and said, "Of course we do, how do you think we pee?"

"YOU PEE?!!?"

I was really laughing now, and said that we did.  "Well, I guess you would have to pee from the place that, you know, poop!"  I thought it was funny that he had accepted girls pooping but not peeing.  I told him that, no, we had separate places.

"But, Mama, you have no -- I don't want you knowing the real word -- you know, wee-wees. There's no place for the pee to come out. I don't get how all that works."  I could see he was really stumped, so I explained how on the inside we all the same stuff: bladders, kidneys, intestines, all that stuff.

"But how does it come out?!!?"

"Well, you have something on the outside, and mine is just sort of on the inside."  He was still confused a little bit and I knew I would have to give him a comparison. That's just how he and I communicate.  "Think of it this way, Ethan.  It's like the difference between a garden hose and a water faucet.  Boys are garden hoses and girls are water faucets."

"Oh!  Yeah, I totally get it now."

This is pretty much what my life is like almost every day.  I love it.