funny and not so funny

Ellie just informed me, as I was wiping her, that "I almost cracked my bum with my big poopy."

Funny story: Last weekend Garrett and Coleman went backpacking with my dad, brother, and the rest of the boys in the family. More on that later. On the way in the truck my nephew Seth (Coleman's age, 7) was reading a book about squirrels. This was the conversation as told by Garrett to our family over dinner.

Garrett: Seth, tell me everything you know about squirrels.

Seth: Well, they're brown.

Coleman: (piping in) They stuff nuts in their cheeks.

Seth: And they have nuts.

Garrett: You mean, they eat nuts?

Seth: Well, they eat nuts and they have nuts.

At this point he and I were laughing at the table and Claire and Coleman were laughing along. Then Claire says, "Why is that funny?" So we laugh more, Coleman too, so I ask him what is funny about it. He said, "Well, I was there wasn't I?" Then he said, "And Seth said that squirrels also have bums." He looked a little confused about this, confirming my assumption that he had NO IDEA what Seth was talking about. As the 3rd of 4 boys, Seth is privy to quite a bit that Coleman has yet to learn. I hope it stays that way for a while. However, when we were in Utah we got a taste of what he has been learning while out of the confines of our sheltered home.

Ellie: (Holding up a half-naked Barbie) These are the Barbie's BOOBS!"

Garrett: Who told you that?

Ellie: Coleman! (He responded with that grin--you know the one!)

Garrett: Coleman, where did you hear that?

Coleman: My buddies! My buddies tell me about the boobs. Well, actually, I should call them nipples. (Oh ya, that's what he said!)

You can imagine the discussion that ensued after that. I really hadn't thought that 6 and 7 year-old boys would be discussing boobs while they grovel in the dirt killing ants. All I hear when they're playing at our house is about the Lego ships they're building, bad guys they're killing, and lots and lots of sound effects. Can't they just stick with that? Why do they need to go anywhere else? And where are those boys learning this stuff??!! Just stay little--PLEASE!!