It's Very Very Fragile

We have always used the real names for body parts at our house. Up until a couple of years ago we only had to talk about the penis, with the vagina only get a couple of mentions here and there. Mostly it was in the context of, "No, I do not have penis. I have a vagina. And no I don't wish I had a penis, thankyouverymuch."

Then I had a daughter and suddenly we were not all penis all the time at our house. But vagina is not an easy word for toddlers to say. So my daughter calls it, "her china". And because I think it is so freaking cute I encourage it and use the term myself. Also when she talks to her grandmother on the phone and drones on and on about her china, my china, and do you like your china, it requires no embarrassed explanations from me.

So imagine how funny she thought it was when we were out shopping this past weekend and as we passed through the housewares section I told her not to touch the fragile china that was on display.

She stopped and looked around, "Where china?"

When I pointed to all the sets of dishes she laughed and laughed, repeatedly saying, "No, that not china! That's a plate. That's a bowl!" She thought it was the funniest joke ever.

I could only imagine she was looking around thinking that there would be vaginas somewhere on display. I was momentarily thankful that I didn't bring her to the China buffet. Not sure how I would explain that one... "Food, from china!"