When you are the only boy in the bunch(excluding Ben-he's a man!) and you're the youngest child to boot, odds are you are going to come across a lot of girlie toys. This happened to Weston recently. Avery left her "My Little Ponies" on the the living floor, and Weston having no prejudices towards girlie things(he's not aware of cooties yet), promptly picked it up and tried stuffing it into his mouth. I of course thought it was hilarious and wanted to document the first of many times Weston would be playing with girlie toys(whether coerced or by his own free will). Ben came in, took one look at me photographing our son with a sparkly pony, made some sort of comment about me "demasculinating our son" and went to get the bin of cars. The pony was traded for a car and Weston resumed stuffing and drooling.
A side note: Ben and I felt it was important to offer a wider variety of toys to our girls to round out their personalities, you know, mix in a few cars, tools, and dinosaurs with the polly pockets and baby dolls. However, when the dinosaurs and cars were inviting each other to tea parties and balls, we gave up.
4 comments:
That's so funny about the tea parties and balls. Boys make everything into a weapon. They are who they are. What a cute little boy. Can't wait to see him in person this July!!!
He is getting so BIG! I love him!
Haha!! That is great! Somehow with three boys, you'd think Drew would glob onto some sort of boy thing, but currently his favorite is the singing Hannah Montana Barbie doll.
Mel, that is so funny! He definitely hears his own drummer!
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