Another attempt on Sophie's lady parts

I've mentioned before that there is a pack of kids that play together on our street. There are mostly boys in the pack and two girls, Sophie and her best friend, Lucy (and Ava, of course...so 2.5). The boys in the pack are:

Charlie and Abe--6-year-old twins
Joseph--Lucy's older brother and Sophie's not-so-secret crush
Donovan--Ava's favorite who's moved to Vashon and is now an honorary member of the pack
Sal--lives around the corner and only has a time share in the pack

The girls are seriously outnumbered, and most of the time it doesn't matter.  The boys ride their bikes up and down the street and stab each other with sticks, and Sophie and Lucy play endless fantasy games about princesses and vampires. But every now and then the worlds collide and a little badness happens.

Tonight the twins came over to play in the backyard. The badness started when Charlie came upstairs to tell us that Ava was doing a lot of potty talking (and I commend him on his ability to understand her). Then I started to do the dishes and KC went outside on the deck to watch over the madness. I heard him say, "Hey! None of that kind of talk here!" Then about 3 minutes later he came in and told me he had sent the twins home.

Apparently, KC overheard the twins trying to convince Sophie to show them her "vagina".  And they actually used that word which, to me, sort of takes the oomph out of the taunt. Then, when KC reprimanded them, they sassed him a little. Then, when he sent them packing, one of them flipped him the bird, but with his index finger.

Of course, I had to tell their mother. For the record, we love the twins.  They're actually very sweet and totally spastic and funny.  It turns out they've just returned from a weekend spent with older cousins, hence the "vagina" and the unpracticed index finger bird.

Sophie was totally unfazed by the event, and this was one tiny moment when I was glad that she was wearing pullups. The showing of private parts may very well take place one day, but I'm thinking that the presence of poop-filled pullups are going to put the brakes on that for a while.

That's my silver lining.