That's No Baby!!

Now, this little story is a couple of years old-- however-- I felt it was worth the write!It came up at work the other day, as we were discussing the mere fact of how boys are so curious of their bodies and what their bodies do, how they make noise, how funny and how stinky they can be. And If i may say it-- once a boy has found his private area-- do they ever let it alone?
My Charlie, is the one with the most questions-- one day he asked me if I had a penis? I want to be honest, but... (long pause) I don't want them to know about everything! So I told him, "No, Mommy's have Pee-Pee's". And that was that! Until the day we were in BJ's. (and ever notice how loud a bathroom can be when someone say's something that you don't want others to hear?) I pulled him inside the stall with me, and all of a sudden, "Ah-HA-- you do have a penis--- I hear you peeing!" Yeah-- there we go! You know as we shopped that morning in BJ's-- I knew just by looking at the woman's face who was in the bathroom that morning!
Now, a couple of years ago--about 4-- I took my 2 boys and new baby to the Washington DC Zoo-- if you ever want to see a beautiful zoo-- this is the place to be!! I love Zoo's-- we are members of the Pittsburgh Zoo-- this way we can go to all the participating Zoo's in the USA for FREE!! You can't beat that! So-- off we trucked that morning to Washington DC to the Zoo. It is about 3 hour ride from PA! So, we get to the Zoo. There was hardly anyone else there-- the animals were out. The day was beautiful. Baby monkey's, baby elephants, panda bears, baby ducks,-- nothing beats watching Mommy's with their babies! It just shows how nurturing a parent can be and how we can all relate to each other. Some more than others, like I think the boys are a good combination of the Tazmanian Devil and Gorilla's! And their father is more like Big Black Bear-- stuck in the honey tree. Why move-- you got the goods all right in front of you!
So, back to the babies! Every baby we saw- I made a big ordeal about! The elephant nursing, the mommy monkey picking bugs off the baby's back and eating them, the baby ducks swimming all within reach of the mommy! Then we came to the Kangaroo's. The boys wandered around the side of the fence and I had the stroller on the other side. And right in front of me hopped a mommy kangaroo with her baby in its pouch! This was so exciting-- when eles do you see this. Only on TV. This is something the boys just had to see! I was so excited calling them back to me like the Mommy Duck-- "Hurry, Hurry, you have got to see the baby!" With all the commotion, a school group was passing by, and they too came running over to see the baby kangaroo inside the Mommy's pouch! I started teaching the children, oh- how small that baby was and how it had to crawl into the pouch and nurse for so long until it pokes it's head out of the pouch! What a miracle!
Now, a couple of these "City" kids started asking-- "Where's the baby"-- and I pointed-- look there it is-- and because we were all tring to see it the Kangaroo kept turning it's back!
Then it hopped right up to us! Now this is exciting.......... Until the Mr. Teacher of the group leaned up to me and said, "Mam, That's no BABY!" I just looked at him and looked closer at the "baby"-- Nope that was no baby.
Then my oldest son looked at me and said, "Momma, is that a penis or a baby?"
Now, how was I to know-- I have only seen baby kangaroo's on TV!
So, with that-- I gathered my children and drove home the 3 hours in the car as the boys' slept-- hopefully not dreaming of babies!