boys...

i have started giving the boybarians separate baths...

just for more of a one on one time with me while i wash their hair and chat with them a bit, and to give them more time to themselves...

so i decided tonight to really teach the duke about penile self care as he is not circumcised...previously, i had just done cursory checks every very once in awhile during diaper changes and later during bathing...

i get wingman occupied so i can talk to the duke privately and seriously about his penis, the difference between being circumcised and not, and show him how to pull back the foreskin and check the head himself...

well, true to form wingman did not cooperate...

what he did was sit outside the door and sing at the top of his lungs...

it was the starbuck's commercial...

"roy...roy, roy, roy...roy, roy, roy...roy a man, doughin' (goin') to wort (work)..."

over and over and over...and over again...

meanwhile, i have my "this is important yet you should know that you can ask anything and above all be comfortable" voice on...i'm explaining the whole deal...i'm getting to the part where i'm talking about pulling the foreskin back, feeling as though i may have to very gingerly talk him through it, perhaps showing him how i have done it while he's previously been too young or too distracted to notice...meanwhile, hoping he's okay with it and it doesn't make him too uncomfortable or nervous about doing it......just as i'm getting to the heart of the matter he says matter of factly

"yeah...i know...i do this all the time..see"

and then i get a visual...

oh...well...okay...good work, then...carry on, lad...be in the kitchen if you need me...

before leaving i did give the chat (more quickly than i had planned) about checking and cleaning, and then left it at that...

i leave the bathroom and trip over wingman who's at the door and has since stopped singing...

"what you ah do-een ah his pee pee?...you ah neet (need) to tet (check) it?...you ah neet to tet mine too?...i ah not want you ah to tet mine...my ah pee pee is seeping (sleeping)...see"

and then he pulls down his pants...

and then i hear from the bathtub

"mama! mama! come here!...you gotta see how big my penis is!"

boys...boys, boys, boys...boys, boys, boys...

x.