Two little stories about Nora.

Yesterday morning as we were getting ready for school Nora came walking up to me and said “Mommy does Daddy have a penis?”

I answered “Yes.”

Then she looked at me and said “Mommy, do you have a vagina?”

“Yes” again.

She looked up at me and in a very serious voice said “I don’t like penises” and then she walked away.

I was dying! I was trying not to laugh. On one hand, she is smart and is starting to figure out the differences between men and women. On the other hand it is just funny to hear her talk like that at 2 1/2 years old.

Then today she went into my bathroom and got out the tampons and panty liners. I didn’t notice at the time. When I went to put her down for her nap I put her on the changing table to I could take off her underwear and put on her diaper. As I was taking off her pants she said to me “I have something in my panties.” As I took off her panties I saw that she had put one of my panty liners in her underwear! She had taken off the paper and used it just as it was supposed to be used.

I guess Freud would say she is definitely in the “Phallic Stage” right now!