The Pagina Monologues

Did you know that girls have paginas?

According to my 7-year-old son Mr. T, every girl has a pagina. Boys have a penis and girls have a pagina. And my other son, 10-year-old Mr. O doesn't want to talk about ANY of it.

So, last night, Mr. T asks, "Mom, what do girls have instead of a penis?"

I'm all about honesty in body parts so I reminded him, "A vagina."

"Oh yeah, a pagina. That's what it's called."

Clearly I hadn't enunciated enough...or maybe the TV was up too loud, but this boy heard "pagina".

While I chuckled to myself over Mr. T mishearing me, and Mr. T was saying to himself, "Pagina...that's weird!", his older brother was not so enthusiastic about all the pagina talk.

Mr. O put his fingers in his ears and sang, "Lalalalala! I'm not listening. I'm 10 and you're grossing me out talking about girl private parts!"

But, never one to miss the chance to correct his little brother, in the next breath, and with ears still plugged with his fingers, Mr. O added, "and it's VAGINA, not 'pagina.'"

Now I have one son who's traumatized over having to correct the other over the correct pronunciation of vagina, and the other is probably at school right this very minute repeating pagina or vagina over and over again. AWESOME!