Jonah was taking a bath and rediscovering parts of his anatomy he’d not yet seen. All of a sudden he says “Daddy, I’ve got a ball!”. Given that he’s typically got a handful of toys in the tub, I didn’t think much about it, and kept doing whatever I was doing on the iPad at the time, replying with a typical parent reponse; “you do?”. “Yep, right here.” he says. At this point I looked up thinking I’d be nodding in agreement with him, but I couldn’t see what he was referring to from where I was so I said “show me”. He stood up to show me and that’s when I found out what he was truly referring to.

I’ve tried to put more “user friendly” names on his boy parts so if he breaks out a reference to them in front of a little girl that has no brothers at school or something, he won’t be introducing her to terms her parents aren’t yet ready for, so in the past, we’ve settled on “hang down” and “jewels”. Classy, I know.

When I saw what he was referring to, I said “Those are your jewels”, to which he quickly replied (while shaking his head) “Boys don’t have jewels Dad. I’ve got balls.”.