The Human Body

There are two things that come to mind today when I think about this topic. The first is where in the world do little boys learn that certain body parts and bodily functions are so funny? Why are they funny? They really aren't to me. I just don't get it. But Charlie and Joseph are very interested in their p____ (can you say that word on a blog? it just doesn't seem right, but then again I never imagined the ease with which that word now rolls off my tongue in seemingly ordinary conversation). They want to wash it at bathtime (not so much washing on other body parts), put lotion on it after bathtime (I refuse), and tell anyone if they get hit there (as Joe announced to his soccer team the other day). And then there are the bodily functions. Charlie tries to slip the word "poopy" into as many conversations as possible. He then laughs hysterically. Joseph doesn't say it as often, but he still laughs. Come to think of it, Cort often laughs too. Oh, and they all laugh about "toots." Even the word "toilet paper" is really funny to Charlie and Joe right now. What is it about males that make all this funny???? Can anyone explain it to me?

The second thing that comes to mind is Joseph's new fascination with a book on the human body that we picked up at Costco. He is particularly fascinated by the skeleton, and can name many of the bones in the body. They had to color the front page of their journals at school the other day, and Joseph drew a skeleton. He then proceeded to point out for me the femur, the spine, the humerus, the radius, the rib cage, the lungs, and the phalanges (that's fingers and toes, if you didn't know).